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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. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
(a) Lagrange.
(b) Newton.
(c) Euler.
(d) Bernoulli.

2. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
(a) Physics.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Mechanics.
(d) Religion.

3. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?
(a) Newton.
(b) Leonhard Euler.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Leibniz.

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

5. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
(a) Religion.
(b) Nature.
(c) Science.
(d) Nuture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.

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 carried rational mechanics to the highest point of generality and abstraction that it was to reach during the Enlightenment?

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