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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chemistry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator explained in Chapter 4 that there was very little in Lavoisier's activities prior to 1772 that revealed any interest in ________.
(a) Distillation.
(b) Evaporation.
(c) Combustion.
(d) Condensation.

2. In a letter of September 21, 1781, who wrote to his mentor Jean d'Alembert that he feared mathematics had reached its limit?
(a) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.
(b) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
(c) Bernard Fontenelle.
(d) Diderot.

3. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?
(a) Isoperimeters.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Cycloid.
(d) Involute.

4. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
(a) 'sGravesande.
(b) Locke.
(c) Boerhaave.
(d) Musschenbroek.

5. Chapter 2 states that ________ had been created to deal with the problem of motion and that the new mathematical techniques discovered in the eighteenth century were all responses to the challenges of mechanics.
(a) Statistics.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Calculus.
(d) Arithmetic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?

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. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.

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