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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. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
(a) Nature.
(b) Religion.
(c) Nuture.
(d) Science.

2. Joseph Black studied chemistry with ________ at Glasgow, serving for three years as his assistant, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Hales.
(b) Cullen.
(c) Lavoisier.
(d) Turgot.

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

4. In Chapter 5, ________ and ________ found freshwater worms regenerated in the same fashion, and since worms were definitely animals, previous doubts about the animality of the polyp lost their force.
(a) La Mettrie / Diderot.
(b) Leeuwenhoek / Hartsoeker.
(c) Trembley / Hertwig.
(d) Reaumur / Bonnet.

5. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?
(a) Leonhard Euler.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Newton.
(d) Bernoulli.

Short Answer Questions

1. Natural theology in England continued well into the nineteenth century, where it finally encountered its nemesis in ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.

2. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.

4. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.

5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?

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