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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chemistry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.
(a) Rockefeller Foundation.
(b) Teyler Foundation.
(c) Ford Foundation.
(d) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

2. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.
(a) America.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) Holland.

3. All of the following English philosophers had shown convincingly that knowledge about the physical world could not be obtained from first principles without resort to experiment except for whom?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Boyle.
(c) Newton.
(d) Locke.

4. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.
(a) Earth.
(b) Air.
(c) Water.
(d) Fire.

5. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
(a) Heat.
(b) Light.
(c) Wood.
(d) Electricity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?

2. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.

3. Lavoisier, along with the chemists Macquer, Cadet, and Brisson, performed experiments on ________ at the highest temperature available.

4. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?

5. In Chapter 4, the narrator reveals that Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was a famous French ________.

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