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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. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
(a) Isoperimeters.
(b) Cycloid.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Brachistachrone.

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

3. In 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.
(a) Stephen Gray.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Francis Hauksbee.
(d) Newton.

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

5. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?
(a) Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet.
(b) The Jesuits.
(c) Stephen Gray.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the extraordinary philosopher whose life and career exemplified many aspects of the Enlightenment, although he was not especially prominent as a natural philosopher nor was he the main protagonist in the vis viva controversy?

2. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."

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

4. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.

5. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.

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