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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. Chapter 5 states that the property of "irritability" had first been recognized by ________, who used it to explain why the gall bladder does not discharge bile into the intestines constantly but only when bile is needed.
(a) Hoffmann.
(b) Haller.
(c) Glisson.
(d) Bordue.

2. Who became the leading literary figure of the Enlightenment and in 1734 published "Philosophical Letters"?
(a) Chatelet.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Breteuil.
(d) Newton.

3. All of the following English philosophers had shown convincingly that knowledge about the physical world could not be obtained from first principles without resort to experiment except for whom?
(a) Newton.
(b) Locke.
(c) Boyle.
(d) Bacon.

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

5. Chapter 5 reveals that in ________, natural theology declined after 1750 as a result of the anti-religious sentiment of the Enlightenment.
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) America.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.

2. 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?

3. Chapter 5 states that ________ means an inquiry or investigation into nature.

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. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?

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