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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Mathematics and the Exact Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Bernoulli.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Carnot.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, what was the key to a correct method whose model was mathematics?
(a) Reason.
(b) Nature.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Nuture.

3. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) R6Z.
(b) A3E.
(c) D2X.
(d) B3C.

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

5. 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) 19th.
(c) 15th.
(d) 18th.

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. 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?

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

4. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.

5. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.

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