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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Mathematics and the Exact Sciences.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the name of the philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Newton.
(b) Condorcet.
(c) Maupertuis.
(d) Descartes.
2. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) L'Hopital.
(b) Varignon.
(c) Kant.
(d) Pierre Bayle.
3. Who stated in the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?
(a) Basel.
(b) Lagrange.
(c) Hermann.
(d) Euler.
4. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."
(a) Maupertuis.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Malebranche.
(d) Alexis-Claude Clairaut.
5. Vis viva was thought by its creator ________ to be the dynamic quantity that was conserved in the universe, according to the narrator in Chapter 2.
(a) 'sGravesande.
(b) Euler.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
2. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, what was the key to a correct method whose model was mathematics?
3. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
4. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
5. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
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