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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. 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?
(a) Swift.
(b) Fontenelle.
(c) Boyle.
(d) Newton.
2. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
(a) Pastoral poem.
(b) Haiku.
(c) Limerick.
(d) Sonnet.
3. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) Boyle.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Kant.
4. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Cartesians.
(d) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.
5. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Masters.
(b) Men of Honor.
(c) Professors.
(d) Men of Letters.
Short Answer Questions
1. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
2. 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"?
3. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
4. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
5. 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?
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