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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Experimental Physics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.
(a) The car.
(b) The mind.
(c) The body.
(d) The soul.

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

3. Of all the subtle fluids conceived of during the Enlightenment, the ________ was the one that caused the most excitement and attracted the most researchers.
(a) Electrical fire.
(b) Water.
(c) Natural fire.
(d) Air.

4. What was the name of the priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, who was also a philosopher, mathematician, and member of the French Academy of Sciences?
(a) Newton.
(b) Nicolas Malebranche.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Chatelet.

5. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Newton.
(b) Musschenbroek.
(c) Franklin.
(d) Desagulier.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?

3. In the preface to his "Histoire" of the Paris Academy of Science, who argued in 1699 that the new "geometric spirit" could also improve works on politics, morals, literary criticism, and even public speaking?

4. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

5. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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