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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Experimental Physics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Physiology.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Mied mathematics.

2. According to Chapter 1, who made Newton into a supreme rationalist whose laws of motion were a priori deductions of pure thought?
(a) Fontenelle.
(b) Maupertuis.
(c) Roberts.
(d) Marquis de l'Hopital.

3. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Newtonian.
(b) Platoian.
(c) Voltairian.
(d) Aristotlian.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, who became a famous doctor and chemist and initiated the Dutch program in his oration of 1715 entitled "De comparando certo in physicis"?
(a) Mariotte.
(b) Newton.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Boerhaave.

5. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Desagulier.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Newton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.

2. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.

4. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?

5. According to the beginning of Chapter 1, in 1759 the French mathematician ________ described a revolution that he saw taking place in natural philosophy.

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