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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joseph Black studied chemistry with ________ at Glasgow, serving for three years as his assistant, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Cullen.
(b) Lavoisier.
(c) Turgot.
(d) Hales.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 6, the ________ philosophers found their principles in a special human sentiment or intuitive sociability.
(a) Irish.
(b) Scottish.
(c) American.
(d) French.

3. Who confirmed Reaumur's experiments, did others on the digestive action of saliva, and performed the experiments on himself?
(a) Stevens.
(b) Borelli.
(c) Spallanzani.
(d) Van Helmont.

4. In February 1744, ________, master apothecary to the French Army, published an article on the red precipitate of mercury "per se" in "Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle, et sur les arts."
(a) Lavoisier.
(b) Bayen.
(c) Turgot.
(d) Macquer.

5. The beginning of Chapter 6 states that the following were traditional judicial bodies that claimed the right to approve taxes except for which one?
(a) The clergy.
(b) The governor.
(c) The parlement.
(d) The nobility.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1660, Robert Boyle published an account of experiments that he had performed with his ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.

2. Chapter 5 states that ________ means an inquiry or investigation into nature.

3. The narrator explained in Chapter 4 that there was very little in Lavoisier's activities prior to 1772 that revealed any interest in ________.

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

5. The period that we call the Enlightenment ended with whom according to the narrator in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly discuss Georg Stahl and his impact on living matter.

2. Briefly discuss the two great national academies that were the models on which the new academies of the eighteenth century were founded.

3. Explain how probability as human judgment was important in law and in commercial transactions.

4. Discuss Abraham Trembley's discovery of generation.

5. What was the medical purpose of Black's research in gas chemistry? Explain.

6. Discuss Regnier de Graaf's experiments on digestive fluids.

7. What was the "Encyclopedie"?

8. Explain the importance of electricity producing muscle contractions.

9. What were a couple ways to promote the science of man according to Chapter 6?

10. What did Descartes conclude about mechanical philosophy and the study of life?

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