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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. 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) 'sGravesande.
(b) Euler.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.

2. Who was the extraordinary philosopher whose life and career exemplified many aspects of the Enlightenment, although he was not especially prominent as a natural philosopher nor was he the main protagonist in the vis viva controversy?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Gabrielle de Breteuil.
(d) Chatelet.

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) Kant.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) D' Alembert.

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

5. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Professors.
(b) Men of Honor.
(c) Men of Letters.
(d) Masters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.

3. 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?

4. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.

5. 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?

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