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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. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) 17th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 19th.
(d) 15th.

2. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
(a) Enlightenment Revolution.
(b) Scientific Revolution.
(c) American Revolution.
(d) French Revolution.

3. 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?
(a) Physics.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Biology.

4. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?
(a) Botany.
(b) Geology.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Mixed mathematics.

5. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of light.
(b) Century of life.
(c) Century of reason.
(d) Century of science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?

2. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, who was one of the originators of the mechanical philosophy who believed there were no forces or powers in matter?

4. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

5. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?

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