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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) Cycloid.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Brachistachrone.

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?
(a) Andreas Sigismund Marggraf.
(b) Nicolas Lemery.
(c) Johann Juncker.
(d) Baron d'Holbach.

3. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.
(a) Newton.
(b) Boyle.
(c) Locke.
(d) Fontenelle.

4. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
(a) Catenary.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Involute.

5. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
(a) Electricity / water.
(b) Heat / air.
(c) Water / air.
(d) Electricity / heat.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.

2. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. 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?

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

5. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.

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