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

2. The ________ greatly increased the demand for certain chemical products, such as alkalis and mineral acids, and the search for improved methods of manufacture resulted in new chemical techniques in metallurgy, ceramics, and textiles, especially in textile dyeing and bleaching.
(a) Great Depression.
(b) World War II.
(c) Industrial Revolution.
(d) French Revolution.

3. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
(a) French Revolution.
(b) American Revolution.
(c) Enlightenment Revolution.
(d) Scientific Revolution.

4. 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?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Fontenelle.
(c) Varignon.
(d) Newton.

5. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."
(a) Diderot.
(b) Immanuel Kant.
(c) Maupertuis.
(d) Chatelet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, who found that many liquids cooled on evaporation: the more volatile the liquid, the greater the amount of cooling?

2. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.

3. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?

4. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?

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

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