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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 was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
(a) John Locke.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) D' Alembert.
(d) Kant.

2. 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.

3. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

4. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?
(a) Stephen Gray.
(b) Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet.
(c) The Jesuits.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

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) Involute.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Cycloid.
(d) Isoperimeters.

Short Answer 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"?

2. What was the name of the philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 3, who noticed that when he pulled off his silk socks in the evening, "they frequently made a crackling or snapping noise" and emitted "sparks of fire"?

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

5. 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."

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