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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. In 1819, who gave a clue to the source of this pessimism when he wrote that "the power of our analysis is practically exhausted"?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Isaac Barrow.
(c) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.
(d) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

2. 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) Man's passion.
(c) Man's desire.
(d) God's demeanor.

3. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Natural theology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Mied mathematics.

4. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Professors.
(b) Men of Letters.
(c) Masters.
(d) Men of Honor.

5. 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) D'Alembert.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Kant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?

2. Who stated in the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?

3. 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."

4. 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?

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

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