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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. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?
(a) Leonhard Euler.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Newton.
(d) Leibniz.

2. 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) Diagonal curve.
(b) Polygon curve.
(c) Centripetal curve.
(d) Pentagon curve.

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

4. Vis viva was thought by its creator ________ to be the dynamic quantity that was conserved in the universe, according to the narrator in Chapter 2.
(a) Euler.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) 'sGravesande.

5. In Chapter 1, who claimed that his "principle of least action" proved the existence of God?
(a) Newton.
(b) Pierre-Louis-Moreau de Maupertuis.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Malebranche.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, what was the key to a correct method whose model was mathematics?

3. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

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

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

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