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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. Joseph Black studied ________, which had only recently been used as a medicine, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Quicklime.
(b) Carbon monoxide.
(c) Limewater.
(d) Magnesia alba.

2. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) L'Hopital.
(b) Pierre Bayle.
(c) Kant.
(d) Varignon.

3. In 1769, ________, a student of Joseph Black's at Glasgow, measured the repulsion between charges with an apparatus that balanced the electrical repulsion against gravitational attraction.
(a) Volta.
(b) Luigi Galvani.
(c) John Robison.
(d) Charles Augustin Coulomb.

4. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
(a) Fordyce.
(b) Newton.
(c) Roebuck.
(d) Black.

5. Who saw his physiology as an animata anatome, an experimental science that investigated and explained the special properties and functions of living matter without going beyond the information obtained from the senses?
(a) Glisson.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Haller.
(d) D'Alembert.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.

3. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

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. According to the narrator in Chapter 4, ________ and ________ were closely associated because they were still based to a large extent on the concept of the Aristotelian elements: earth, water, air, and fire.

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