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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Character of the Enlightenment.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the name of the priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, who was also a philosopher, mathematician, and member of the French Academy of Sciences?
(a) Newton.
(b) Nicolas Malebranche.
(c) Chatelet.
(d) Descartes.
2. In Chapter 1, who claimed that his "principle of least action" proved the existence of God?
(a) Malebranche.
(b) Newton.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Pierre-Louis-Moreau de Maupertuis.
3. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
(a) Mechanics.
(b) Physics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Christianity.
4. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
(a) John Locke.
(b) Kant.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) D' Alembert.
5. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
(a) Sonnet.
(b) Pastoral poem.
(c) Haiku.
(d) Limerick.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
2. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
3. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?
4. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
5. What category of science, at the beginning of the Enlightenment, was "the science that teaches us the reasons and causes of all the effects that Nature produces," including both living and nonliving phenomena?
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