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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. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Mechanism.
(c) Academism.
(d) Deism.

2. Who became the leading literary figure of the Enlightenment and in 1734 published "Philosophical Letters"?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Chatelet.
(c) Newton.
(d) Breteuil.

3. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
(a) Diagonal curve.
(b) Centripetal curve.
(c) Pentagon curve.
(d) Polygon curve.

4. 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) Swift.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Robert Boyle.
(d) Locke.

5. In a letter of September 21, 1781, who wrote to his mentor Jean d'Alembert that he feared mathematics had reached its limit?
(a) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.
(d) Bernard Fontenelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.

2. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.

4. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."

5. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?

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