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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
(a) Robert Symmer.
(b) John Cuthbertson.
(c) Abbe Nollet.
(d) William Gilbert.

2. In Chapter 5, Ingen-Housz was able to show in his "Experiments on Vegetables" that it was ________ not ________, that was essential for the production of oxygen by the leaves.
(a) Fertilizer / water.
(b) Sunlight / heat.
(c) Sunlight / air.
(d) Heat / fertilizer.

3. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.
(a) 30.
(b) 8.
(c) 75.
(d) 90.

4. In Chapter 5, who adopted a theory of generation similar to that of Maupertuis and in his second volume of his "Natural History," he brought forward his theory of organic molecules, interior mold, and penetrating force?
(a) Buffon.
(b) Bonnet.
(c) Graafian.
(d) Kolreuter.

5. Van Helmont had proposed an ________ in the stomach that he believed to be the innermost essence of life and that acted by fermentation.
(a) Archaeus.
(b) Axolotl.
(c) Nasalis.
(d) Myxini.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1688, who had shown that the insect larva, pupa, and imago can exist simultaneously, all nested one within the other?

2. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?

3. The discipline of physics had originally been created by ________, and it had nothing to do with experiment or quantitative measure nor was it limited to the inorganic world.

4. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?

5. Who saw his physiology as an animata anatome, an experimental science that investigated and explained the special properties and functions of living matter without going beyond the information obtained from the senses?

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