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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator explains that the most important elements for the Chemical Revolution were ________ and ________.
(a) Fire / Earth.
(b) Earth / Water.
(c) Air / fire.
(d) Air / Earth.

2. Joseph Black studied chemistry with ________ at Glasgow, serving for three years as his assistant, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Turgot.
(b) Lavoisier.
(c) Cullen.
(d) Hales.

3. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of reason.
(b) Century of light.
(c) Century of science.
(d) Century of life.

4. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
(a) Natural magic.
(b) Physics.
(c) Practical magic.
(d) Black magic.

5. In Chapter 3, ________ and ________ were both led to the problem of specific heat by the discovery that a great deal of heat was required to melt ice, even though its temperature remained at the melting point.
(a) Wilcke / Robison.
(b) Black / Wilcke.
(c) Black / Coulomb.
(d) Galvani / Volta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.

2. Who was the most important German chemist, whose papers in the "Memoires" of the Berlin Academy, during the 1740s and 1750s, earned the admiration of the French chemists?

3. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.

4. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?

5. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?

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