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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Mathematics and the Exact Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.
(a) Fontenelle.
(b) Newton.
(c) Locke.
(d) Boyle.

3. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Jean Lerond d'Alembert.
(c) Newton.
(d) Malebranche.

4. According to the beginning of Chapter 1, in 1759 the French mathematician ________ described a revolution that he saw taking place in natural philosophy.
(a) Carnot.
(b) Jean Lerond d'Alembert.
(c) Newton.
(d) Euler.

5. What was the name of the philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Condorcet.
(c) Newton.
(d) Maupertuis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.

2. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.

3. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."

4. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.

5. According to Chapter 1, who made Newton into a supreme rationalist whose laws of motion were a priori deductions of pure thought?

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