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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was France's greatest hero of the Enlightenment partly because he was from England, the source of free thought and liberty and partly because he had solved the riddle of the planets, showing that their motions obeyed the same laws as motions on earth?
(a) Fontenelle.
(b) Swift.
(c) Newton.
(d) Boyle.

2. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
(a) Haiku.
(b) Pastoral poem.
(c) Limerick.
(d) Sonnet.

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

4. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Malebranche.
(c) Newton.
(d) Jean Lerond d'Alembert.

5. Who became the leading literary figure of the Enlightenment and in 1734 published "Philosophical Letters"?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Newton.
(c) Breteuil.
(d) Chatelet.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the beginning of Chapter 1, in 1759 the French mathematician ________ described a revolution that he saw taking place in natural philosophy.

2. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.

3. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?

4. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.

5. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?

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