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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 5 reveals that in ________, natural theology declined after 1750 as a result of the anti-religious sentiment of the Enlightenment.
(a) America.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

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

3. In 1660, Robert Boyle published an account of experiments that he had performed with his ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.
(a) Filter.
(b) Vacuum pump.
(c) Forceps.
(d) Microscope.

4. In Chapter 5, the most scandalous physiology of all was "Man the Machine" of ________.
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Vincennes.
(c) Shaftesbury.
(d) La Mettrie.

5. Newton had not made it clear whether the forces acting between the planets and between the parts of matter acted at a distance or through some intervening medium called a(n) ________.
(a) Ether.
(b) Fluid.
(c) Witness.
(d) Osmosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before 1740, the standard authorities in physiology were all of the following individuals except for whom?

2. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.

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

4. In 1757, thirty years after Hales described his experiments with ________, Joseph Black discovered the phenomenon of ________.

5. According to the beginning of Chapter 1, in 1759 the French mathematician ________ described a revolution that he saw taking place in natural philosophy.

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