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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. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, what was the key to a correct method whose model was mathematics?
(a) Nuture.
(b) Nature.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Reason.
2. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 18th.
(b) 17th.
(c) 19th.
(d) 15th.
3. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Mied mathematics.
(b) Physiology.
(c) Natural theology.
(d) Psychology.
4. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
(a) Limerick.
(b) Haiku.
(c) Pastoral poem.
(d) Sonnet.
5. In Chapter 1, who claimed that his "principle of least action" proved the existence of God?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Pierre-Louis-Moreau de Maupertuis.
(c) Newton.
(d) Malebranche.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was France's greatest hero of the Enlightenment partly because he was from England, the source of free thought and liberty and partly because he had solved the riddle of the planets, showing that their motions obeyed the same laws as motions on earth?
2. According to Chapter 1, the noble Houyhnhnm in Jonathan Swift's ________ "thought Nature and Reason were sufficient guides for a reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what we ought to do, and what to avoid."
3. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
4. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
5. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
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