pertemuan 12

PERTEMUAN 12

1. Which of the following is the main point of the passage?
A. They were both laboratory and literary alchemists.
B. Base metals can be transmuted to gold by blending
them with a substance more perfect than gold.
C. Roger Bacon and St. Albertus Magnus wrote about
alchemy
D. Alchemy was the predecessor of modern chemistry.

2. The word authentic in paragraph 2 could best be replaced
by
A. valuable
B. genuine
C. complete
D. comprehensible

3. According to the alchemists, what is the difference
between base metals and gold?
A. Perfection
B. Chemical content
C. Temperature
D. Weight

4. According to the passage, what is the “philosopher’s
stone”?
A. Lead that was mixed with gold
B. An element that was never found
C. Another name for alchemy
D. A base metal

5. The word cryptic in paragraph 3 could best be replaced
by which of the following?
A. scholarly
B. secret
C. foreign
D. Precise

6. Why did the early alchemists use the terns sun and
moon?
A. To keep the work secret
B. To make the work more literary
C. To attract philosophers
D. To produce a written record

7. Who were the first alchemists?
A. Chemists
B. Writer
C. Artisans
D. Linguists

8. In paragraph 3, the author suggests that we know about
the history of alchemy because
A. the laboratory alchemists kept secret notes
B. the literary alchemists recorded it in writing
C. the mystical philosophers were not able to hide the
secret of alchemy
D. the historians were able to interpret the secret
writings of the alchemists

9. Which of the following statements would the author most
probably agree?
A. Alchemy must be considered a complete failure.
B. Some very important scientific discoveries were made
by alchemists.
C. Most educated people dismissed alchemy during the
time that it was practiced.
D. The literary alchemists were more important than the
laboratory alchemists.