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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 in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
(a) Electricity / heat.
(b) Electricity / water.
(c) Water / air.
(d) Heat / air.

2. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Musschenbroek.
(b) Newton.
(c) Desagulier.
(d) Franklin.

3. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?
(a) Locke.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Robert Boyle.
(d) Swift.

4. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
(a) Fordyce.
(b) Newton.
(c) Roebuck.
(d) Black.

5. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Nuture.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."

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

4. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, what was the key to a correct method whose model was mathematics?

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