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Mark the statements true (T) or false (F)

1. Alchemy was an art based on partly upon experimentation and partly upon magic.

2. Early investigators of natural processes centered their search on a mythical thing they knew as the philosopher's stone.

3. The philosopher's stone was supposed to possess many valuable attributes.

4. The rich folks of the day sponsored scientists who promised them the stone.

5. The two general aims of the alchemists were: transmuting base metals into gold and manufacturing artificial life.

6. Alchemists made many genuinely valuable contributions to knowledge.

7. The basic elements were fire, air, earth.

8. The long-sought process of transmutation was at last possible.

9. Elements are now transmuted an atom at a time, by high – energy bombardment with subatomic particles.

10. When the nonsense and misinformation were boiled out of alchemy, it became physics.

Circle the correct item

1. Alchemy was an art based partly upon experimentation and partly upon …

a) power

b) magic

c) ability

2. Early investigators of natural processes centered their search on a mythical … they knew as the philosopher's stone.

a) material

b) liquid

c) substance

3. The rich folks of the day sponsored …

a) alchemists

b) scientists

c) magicians

4. … of success were then and are now, equally and perpetually fertile.

a) Hopes

b) Beliefs

c) Expectations

5. The three general aims of the alchemists failed …

a) to be met

b) to be seen

c) to be solved

6. Friar Nicolas Flamel of Paris …

a) died very poor

b) became famous

c) died very rich

7. A subsequent Henry granted four commissions to scoundrels who assured him they could produce …

a) all sorts of gold

b) all sorts of silver

c) all sorts of diamonds

8. Alchemists made many valuable contributions …

a) skills

b) understanding

c) to knowledge

9. Their basic … were fire, air, earth and water.

a) elements

b) parts

c) features

10. When the nonsense and misinformation were boiled out of alchemy …

a) it became biology

b) it became chemistry

c) it became physics

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