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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.

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) Condorcet.
(b) Maupertuis.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Newton.

2. In Chapter 3, who noticed that when he pulled off his silk socks in the evening, "they frequently made a crackling or snapping noise" and emitted "sparks of fire"?
(a) John Cuthbertson.
(b) William Gilbert.
(c) Robert Symmer.
(d) Martinus van Marum.

3. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."
(a) Maupertuis.
(b) Immanuel Kant.
(c) Diderot.
(d) Chatelet.

4. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Newtonian.
(b) Platoian.
(c) Aristotlian.
(d) Voltairian.

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.
(a) The soul.
(b) The body.
(c) The car.
(d) The mind.

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. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?

3. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu, and Carl Linnaeus were considered ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.

4. Before 1740, the standard authorities in physiology were all of the following individuals except for whom?

5. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.

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