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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Moral Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following Rousseau's book on education begins: "All is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things"?
(a) Vis Viva.
(b) Search for Truth.
(c) Emile.
(d) Encyclopedie.

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

3. Chapter 5 states that the property of "irritability" had first been recognized by ________, who used it to explain why the gall bladder does not discharge bile into the intestines constantly but only when bile is needed.
(a) Haller.
(b) Hoffmann.
(c) Glisson.
(d) Bordue.

4. According to Chapter 3, ________ was the most volatile and least substantial of all the elements; therefore, it was the chief agent of change, as witnessed by its role in combustion, fermentation, decomposition, and evaporation.
(a) Fire.
(b) Water.
(c) Wind.
(d) Air.

5. The discipline of physics had originally been created by ________, and it had nothing to do with experiment or quantitative measure nor was it limited to the inorganic world.
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Newton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued in Chapter 6 that although men did not enjoy equal abilities, they did have the same natural rights, and it was therefore incumbent on the government to allow individuals to pursue their own best interests to the extent that they could without infringing on the natural rights of others?

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

3. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.

4. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.

5. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

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