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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. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
(a) Polygon curve.
(b) Diagonal curve.
(c) Pentagon curve.
(d) Centripetal curve.

2. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Mied mathematics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Natural theology.
(d) Physiology.

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

4. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
(a) Tractrix.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Involute.
(d) Catenary.

5. Who carried rational mechanics to the highest point of generality and abstraction that it was to reach during the Enlightenment?
(a) Lagrange.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Hermann.
(d) Diderot.

Short Answer Questions

1. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.

2. Who became the leading literary figure of the Enlightenment and in 1734 published "Philosophical Letters"?

3. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?

4. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.

5. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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