Science and the Enlightenment Test | Final Test - Medium

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 Test | Final Test - Medium

Thomas L. Hankins
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the most important German chemist, whose papers in the "Memoires" of the Berlin Academy, during the 1740s and 1750s, earned the admiration of the French chemists?
(a) Nicolas Lemery.
(b) Johann Juncker.
(c) Andreas Sigismund Marggraf.
(d) Baron d'Holbach.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 5, who coined the word "spermatozoon" in 1827?
(a) Swammerdam.
(b) Hartsoeker.
(c) Von Baer.
(d) Linnaeus.

3. Chapter 6 explains ________ requires a science of man that uses methods comparable to those of the physical sciences.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Social science.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 6, who coined the term physiocratie?
(a) La Riviere.
(b) Pmpadour.
(c) Nemours.
(d) Mirabeau.

5. Beginning in 1760, all of the following individuals were considered the three best experimentalists of the century who were all drawn to the ovist version of the preformation theory except for which one?
(a) Spallanzani.
(b) Bonnet.
(c) Haller.
(d) Needham.

Short Answer Questions

1. The influx of German texts coincided with the revival of French chemistry under ________, who began his famous chemical lectures at the Jardin de Roi in 1742.

2. The beginning of Chapter 6 states that the following were traditional judicial bodies that claimed the right to approve taxes except for which one?

3. Joseph Black studied ________, which had only recently been used as a medicine, according to Chapter 4.

4. In 1660, Robert Boyle published an account of experiments that he had performed with his ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.

5. The reintroduction of atomism into chemistry was accomplished by a meteorologist, ________, who became a chemist only when he saw the implications for chemistry of his ideas about the atmosphere.

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Regnier de Graaf's experiments on digestive fluids.

2. Briefly explain Joseph Priestley and his contribution to gas chemistry.

3. Explain the common property air and fire both shared.

4. Describe the three primary kinds of governments Montesquieu distinguished between in Chapter 6.

5. Discuss Turgot's version of the science of man.

6. Discuss Montesquieu's fourteenth book of the "Spirit of the Laws."

7. Explain the importance of electricity producing muscle contractions.

8. Who were the physiocrats? Explain.

9. What was Turgot's theory of expansibility?

10. What did Descartes conclude about mechanical philosophy and the study of life?

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