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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
(a) Tractrix.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Brachistachrone.
(d) Cycloid.

2. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Lagrange.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Euler.
(d) Newton.

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

4. 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) Fire.
(c) Air.
(d) Wind.

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) Desagulier.
(b) Newton.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Franklin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.

2. In 1769, ________, a student of Joseph Black's at Glasgow, measured the repulsion between charges with an apparatus that balanced the electrical repulsion against gravitational attraction.

3. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?

4. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

5. What was the name of the problem of finding the shape of a surface of maximum area for a perimeter of given length as found in Chapter 2?

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