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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 4, who found that many liquids cooled on evaporation: the more volatile the liquid, the greater the amount of cooling?
(a) Black.
(b) Cullen.
(c) Wallerius.
(d) Nollet.

2. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
(a) Limerick.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Pastoral poem.

3. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.
(a) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
(b) Teyler Foundation.
(c) Ford Foundation.
(d) Rockefeller Foundation.

4. All of the following English philosophers had shown convincingly that knowledge about the physical world could not be obtained from first principles without resort to experiment except for whom?
(a) Boyle.
(b) Newton.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Locke.

5. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) Cartesians.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1757, thirty years after Hales described his experiments with ________, Joseph Black discovered the phenomenon of ________.

2. The narrator reveals that Lavoisier heated water gently for ________days in a "pelican," an apparatus for constant distillation in which the water evaporates, then condenses, and finally runs back to be evaporated again.

3. 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"?

4. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 4, ________ and ________ were closely associated because they were still based to a large extent on the concept of the Aristotelian elements: earth, water, air, and fire.

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