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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 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Musschenbroek.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Desagulier.
(d) Newton.

2. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Natural theology.
(d) Mied mathematics.

3. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?
(a) The Jesuits.
(b) Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Stephen Gray.

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

5. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Men of Letters.
(b) Men of Honor.
(c) Professors.
(d) Masters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.

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

3. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

4. Of all the subtle fluids conceived of during the Enlightenment, the ________ was the one that caused the most excitement and attracted the most researchers.

5. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.

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