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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 the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?
(a) Newton.
(b) Black.
(c) Lavoisier.
(d) Cullen.

2. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?
(a) Wolff.
(b) Chatelet.
(c) Desaguliers.
(d) 'sGravesande.

3. In 1660, Robert Boyle published an account of experiments that he had performed with his ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.
(a) Microscope.
(b) Forceps.
(c) Filter.
(d) Vacuum pump.

4. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Deism.
(c) Academism.
(d) Mechanism.

5. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?
(a) Brachistachrone.
(b) Catenary.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Involute.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.

2. Joseph Priestly and Henry Cavendish continued to use the term ________ for the action of fire in combustion, in Chapter 4.

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. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?

5. 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.

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