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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. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.
(a) Water.
(b) Air.
(c) Earth.
(d) Fire.

2. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?
(a) Franklin.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Eddison.
(d) Newton.

3. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Desagulier.
(b) Newton.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Franklin.

4. What was Diderot's first philosophical work, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) Encyclopedie.
(b) On the Interpretation of Nature.
(c) The Letter on the Blind.
(d) Philosophical Thoughts.

5. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.
(a) 30.
(b) 8.
(c) 90.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5 reveals that in ________, natural theology declined after 1750 as a result of the anti-religious sentiment of the Enlightenment.

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. In Chapter 5, the most scandalous physiology of all was "Man the Machine" of ________.

4. Of all the subtle fluids conceived of during the Enlightenment, the ________ was the one that caused the most excitement and attracted the most researchers.

5. Who stated in the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?

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