Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Thomas L. Hankins
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Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Thomas L. Hankins
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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. According to Chapter 1, the noble Houyhnhnm in Jonathan Swift's ________ "thought Nature and Reason were sufficient guides for a reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what we ought to do, and what to avoid."
(a) Gulliver's Travels.
(b) Twelve Articles.
(c) The Day of Judgement.
(d) A Modest Proposal.

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?
(a) Mechanism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Deism.
(d) Academism.

3. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.
(a) Psychology.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Rational mechanics.
(d) Synthesis.

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

5. 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"?
(a) Robert Symmer.
(b) Martinus van Marum.
(c) William Gilbert.
(d) John Cuthbertson.

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 could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?

3. In 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.

5. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.

(see the answer key)

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