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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 extraordinary philosopher whose life and career exemplified many aspects of the Enlightenment, although he was not especially prominent as a natural philosopher nor was he the main protagonist in the vis viva controversy?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Gabrielle de Breteuil.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Chatelet.

2. 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.
(a) Geology / geography.
(b) Chemistry / experimental physics.
(c) Zoology / biology.
(d) Biology / geography.

3. 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.

4. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 19th.
(b) 15th.
(c) 17th.
(d) 18th.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Newton had not made it clear whether the forces acting between the planets and between the parts of matter acted at a distance or through some intervening medium called a(n) ________.

2. Robert Whytt and Charles Aston studied the properties of ________ and ________ according, to the narrator in Chapter 4.

3. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.

4. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, who became a famous doctor and chemist and initiated the Dutch program in his oration of 1715 entitled "De comparando certo in physicis"?

(see the answer key)

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