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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. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Voltairian.
(b) Platoian.
(c) Aristotlian.
(d) Newtonian.

2. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
(a) D' Alembert.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) John Locke.
(d) Kant.

3. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.
(a) Galileo.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Poleni.
(d) Descartes.

4. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
(a) American Revolution.
(b) Scientific Revolution.
(c) Enlightenment Revolution.
(d) French Revolution.

5. Who was France's greatest hero of the Enlightenment partly because he was from England, the source of free thought and liberty and partly because he had solved the riddle of the planets, showing that their motions obeyed the same laws as motions on earth?
(a) Fontenelle.
(b) Boyle.
(c) Newton.
(d) Swift.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

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

3. Who carried rational mechanics to the highest point of generality and abstraction that it was to reach during the Enlightenment?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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