Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Thomas L. Hankins
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Thomas L. Hankins
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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 soul.
(b) The body.
(c) The mind.
(d) The car.

2. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?
(a) Eddison.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Newton.

3. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?
(a) Involute.
(b) Catenary.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Brachistachrone.

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

5. 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) Boyle.
(c) Fontenelle.
(d) Newton.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.

3. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?

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.

5. In a letter of September 21, 1781, who wrote to his mentor Jean d'Alembert that he feared mathematics had reached its limit?

(see the answer key)

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