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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 "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.
(a) England.
(b) America.
(c) Africa.
(d) Germany.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, who was one of the originators of the mechanical philosophy who believed there were no forces or powers in matter?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Carnot.

3. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 19th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 18th.

4. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Lagrange.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Euler.
(d) Newton.

5. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of science.
(b) Century of reason.
(c) Century of light.
(d) Century of life.

Short Answer 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?

2. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.

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

4. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?

5. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.

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