501 Critical Reading Questions

Critical Reading Questions
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363.
Which of the following is NOT an accolade received by Newton?
a.
Member of the Royal Society
b.
Order of Knighthood
c.
Master of the Royal Mint
d.
Prime Minister, Parliament
e.
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
364.
Of the following, which is last in chronology?
a.
Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
b.
Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton’s Life
c.
Newton’s Laws of Motion
d.
Optiks
e.
invention of a reflecting telescope
365.
Which statement best summarizes the life of Sir Isaac Newton?
a.
distinguished inventor, mathematician, physicist, and great
thinker of the seventeenth century
b.
eminent mathematician, physicist, and scholar of the 
Renaissance
c.
noteworthy physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and British
Lord
d.
from master of the mint to master mathematician: Lord Isaac
Newton
e.
Isaac Newton: founder of calculus and father of gravity
Questions 366–373 are based on the following passage.