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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Chapter 3, ________ was the most volatile and least substantial of all the elements; therefore, it was the chief agent of change, as witnessed by its role in combustion, fermentation, decomposition, and evaporation.
(a) Water.
(b) Air.
(c) Wind.
(d) Fire.
2. The discipline of physics had originally been created by ________, and it had nothing to do with experiment or quantitative measure nor was it limited to the inorganic world.
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Newton.
3. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.
(a) Macquer.
(b) Turgot.
(c) Black.
(d) Bayen.
4. The ________, who had been leaders in experimental physics during the seventeenth century, continued to hold a prominent place until their order was suppressed in 1773.
(a) Jewish.
(b) Jesuits.
(c) Buddist.
(d) Christians.
5. The influx of German texts coincided with the revival of French chemistry under ________, who began his famous chemical lectures at the Jardin de Roi in 1742.
(a) Lemery.
(b) D'Holbach.
(c) Juncker.
(d) Rouelle.
Short Answer Questions
1. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
2. According to the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 5, this chapter is about the world of living things and could be called ________, except as a word and as a discipline, it did not appear until the very end of the eighteenth century.
3. Robert Whytt and Charles Aston studied the properties of ________ and ________ according, to the narrator in Chapter 4.
4. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
5. The narrator explains in Chapter 4 that the most popular textbooks in France during the first half of the eighteenth century were those of ________ and ________.
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