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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. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
(a) Religion.
(b) Science.
(c) Nuture.
(d) Nature.

2. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.
(a) God's demeanor.
(b) Man's desire.
(c) God's desire.
(d) Man's passion.

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

4. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
(a) Religion.
(b) Mechanics.
(c) Physics.
(d) Christianity.

5. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) Kant.
(b) L'Hopital.
(c) Pierre Bayle.
(d) Varignon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the preface to his "Histoire" of the Paris Academy of Science, who argued in 1699 that the new "geometric spirit" could also improve works on politics, morals, literary criticism, and even public speaking?

2. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.

3. 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?

4. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.

5. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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