Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Thomas L. Hankins
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Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | One Week Quiz A

Thomas L. Hankins
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
(a) Electricity / heat.
(b) Heat / air.
(c) Electricity / water.
(d) Water / air.

2. In 1688, who had shown that the insect larva, pupa, and imago can exist simultaneously, all nested one within the other?
(a) Malebranche.
(b) Swammerdam.
(c) Hertwig.
(d) Von Baer.

3. 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) Newton.
(b) Plato.
(c) Boerhaave.
(d) Aristotle.

4. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.
(a) God's desire.
(b) Man's passion.
(c) Man's desire.
(d) God's demeanor.

5. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
(a) Newton / Aristotle.
(b) Giovanni Poleni / 'sGravesande.
(c) Voltaire / d'Alembert.
(d) 'sGravesande / Descartes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

2. Natural theology in England continued well into the nineteenth century, where it finally encountered its nemesis in ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.

3. What was the name of the problem of finding the shape of a surface of maximum area for a perimeter of given length as found in Chapter 2?

4. 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?

5. Before 1740, the standard authorities in physiology were all of the following individuals except for whom?

(see the answer key)

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