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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. 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) Witness.
(b) Fluid.
(c) Ether.
(d) Osmosis.

2. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Jean Lerond d'Alembert.
(b) Malebranche.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Newton.

3. In Chapter 4, Abbe Condillac claimed that ________ was the best language because it had the best symbols.
(a) Sign language.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Japanese.

4. The concept of subtle fluids made its appearance around ________ when demonstration experiments in physics were rapidly gaining in popularity, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) 1853.
(b) 1740.
(c) 1770.
(d) 1800.

5. Chapter 5 states that the property of "irritability" had first been recognized by ________, who used it to explain why the gall bladder does not discharge bile into the intestines constantly but only when bile is needed.
(a) Hoffmann.
(b) Bordue.
(c) Haller.
(d) Glisson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who confirmed Reaumur's experiments, did others on the digestive action of saliva, and performed the experiments on himself?

2. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.

3. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?

4. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.

5. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?

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