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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.
(a) Stephen Gray.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Francis Hauksbee.
(d) Newton.

2. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Physiology.
(b) Natural theology.
(c) Mied mathematics.
(d) Psychology.

3. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) Subtle fluid.
(b) Transmission fluid.
(c) Acid fluid.
(d) Capacitor fluid.

4. The narrator reveals that Lavoisier heated water gently for ________days in a "pelican," an apparatus for constant distillation in which the water evaporates, then condenses, and finally runs back to be evaporated again.
(a) 30.
(b) 90.
(c) 101.
(d) 365.

5. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of science.
(b) Century of light.
(c) Century of life.
(d) Century of reason.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, what is the name of the group of financiers who obtained from the French government the right to collect taxes?

3. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.

4. Lavoisier, along with the chemists Macquer, Cadet, and Brisson, performed experiments on ________ at the highest temperature available.

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

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