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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 Chapter 1, the noble Houyhnhnm in Jonathan Swift's ________ "thought Nature and Reason were sufficient guides for a reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what we ought to do, and what to avoid."
(a) Twelve Articles.
(b) Gulliver's Travels.
(c) A Modest Proposal.
(d) The Day of Judgement.

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

3. 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) 15th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 19th.

4. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
(a) Boyle.
(b) Kant.
(c) D'Alembert.
(d) David Hume.

5. 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?
(a) Cycloid.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Isoperimeters.
(d) Involute.

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. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

3. 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"?

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?

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