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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. Lavoisier, along with the chemists Macquer, Cadet, and Brisson, performed experiments on ________ at the highest temperature available.
(a) Magnets.
(b) Rubies.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Gold.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.
(a) German psychologist.
(b) French electrician.
(c) American plumber.
(d) Polish priest.

3. In 1728, what was the name of the English Quaker who published in London a two-volume "Cyclopaedia" or universal dictionary of the arts and sciences?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Chambers.
(c) Persia.
(d) Condorcet.

4. Who opened his "Spirit of the Laws" with a definition of law in Chapter 6?
(a) Montesquieu.
(b) Hume.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Voltaire.

5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
(a) Involute.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Catenary.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.

2. Chapter 6 explains that ________ created the first stirrings of Romanticism.

3. Harvey followed the Aristotelian notion that the embryo began as a homogeneous mass and that the organs formed one after another from this homogeneous substance in a process called ________.

4. In Chapter 5, who wrote, "We may conclude that the organs of the body have not always existed, but have been formed successively - no matter how this formation has been brought about"?

5. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

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