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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 explains that the most important elements for the Chemical Revolution were ________ and ________.
(a) Air / fire.
(b) Air / Earth.
(c) Earth / Water.
(d) Fire / Earth.

2. The crucial realization of the Chemical Revolution was that ________ was not a single element but a physical state that many chemical substances could assume, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Wind.
(b) Air.
(c) Earth.
(d) Fire.

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

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.
(a) French electrician.
(b) German psychologist.
(c) Polish priest.
(d) American plumber.

5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
(a) Isoperimeters.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Brachistachrone.
(d) Cycloid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."

2. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?

4. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.

5. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."

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