Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Thomas L. Hankins
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

Thomas L. Hankins
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chemistry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what is the name of the group of financiers who obtained from the French government the right to collect taxes?
(a) Tax farm.
(b) Personal tax assistant.
(c) Fixed sum.
(d) Tax lawyer.

2. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?
(a) Involute.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Cycloid.
(d) Tractrix.

3. 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) Pierre Bayle.
(d) Kant.

4. In 1757, thirty years after Hales described his experiments with ________, Joseph Black discovered the phenomenon of ________.
(a) Fixed air / latent heat.
(b) Volatile liquid / fixed heat.
(c) Vaporization / Dissertation.
(d) Latent heat / Fixed heat.

5. In Chapter 3, ________ and ________ were both led to the problem of specific heat by the discovery that a great deal of heat was required to melt ice, even though its temperature remained at the melting point.
(a) Wilcke / Robison.
(b) Black / Wilcke.
(c) Black / Coulomb.
(d) Galvani / Volta.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explained in Chapter 4 that there was very little in Lavoisier's activities prior to 1772 that revealed any interest in ________.

2. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.

3. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?

4. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.

5. 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.

(see the answer key)

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