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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 Pitton de Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu, and Carl Linnaeus were considered ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.
(a) Zoologists.
(b) Podiatrists.
(c) Cardiologists.
(d) Naturalists.
2. In Chapter 4, who found that many liquids cooled on evaporation: the more volatile the liquid, the greater the amount of cooling?
(a) Black.
(b) Nollet.
(c) Wallerius.
(d) Cullen.
3. Chapter 5 states that ________ means an inquiry or investigation into nature.
(a) Physiology.
(b) Neurology.
(c) Natural history.
(d) Naturology.
4. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?
(a) Geology.
(b) Mixed mathematics.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Botany.
5. In Chapter 4, what is the name of the group of financiers who obtained from the French government the right to collect taxes?
(a) Personal tax assistant.
(b) Tax farm.
(c) Fixed sum.
(d) Tax lawyer.
Short Answer Questions
1. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.
2. What was the name of the problem of finding the shape of a surface of maximum area for a perimeter of given length as found in Chapter 2?
3. As a mathematician and rigorous metaphysician, ________ believed that the universe in all past, present, and future states followed a "preestablished harmony" laid down by God at the time of creation.
4. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?
5. In Chapter 5, who wrote, "We may conclude that the organs of the body have not always existed, but have been formed successively - no matter how this formation has been brought about"?
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