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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. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) Boyle.
(c) Kant.
(d) David Hume.

2. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?
(a) Brachistachrone.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Involute.
(d) Catenary.

3. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
(a) Polygon curve.
(b) Pentagon curve.
(c) Diagonal curve.
(d) Centripetal curve.

4. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) Varignon.
(b) Kant.
(c) Pierre Bayle.
(d) L'Hopital.

5. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?
(a) Newton.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Eddison.
(d) Johnson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

2. Chapter 2 states that ________ had been created to deal with the problem of motion and that the new mathematical techniques discovered in the eighteenth century were all responses to the challenges of mechanics.

3. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?

4. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

5. According to Chapter 1, who made Newton into a supreme rationalist whose laws of motion were a priori deductions of pure thought?

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