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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. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?
(a) Eddison.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Newton.
(d) Franklin.

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

3. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."
(a) Maupertuis.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Immanuel Kant.
(d) Chatelet.

4. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Isaac Barrow.
(c) Euclid.
(d) Condillac.

5. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
(a) Kant.
(b) David Hume.
(c) D'Alembert.
(d) Boyle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.

3. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?

4. 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?

5. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."

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