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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 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.
(a) The mind.
(b) The body.
(c) The car.
(d) The soul.

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"?
(a) Robert Boyle.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Swift.
(d) Locke.

3. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.
(a) God's desire.
(b) God's demeanor.
(c) Man's passion.
(d) Man's desire.

4. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
(a) 'sGravesande / Descartes.
(b) Giovanni Poleni / 'sGravesande.
(c) Newton / Aristotle.
(d) Voltaire / d'Alembert.

5. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) Pierre Bayle.
(b) L'Hopital.
(c) Kant.
(d) Varignon.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."

2. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?

3. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?

4. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?

5. Who was the extraordinary philosopher whose life and career exemplified many aspects of the Enlightenment, although he was not especially prominent as a natural philosopher nor was he the main protagonist in the vis viva controversy?

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