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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chemistry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) Holland.
(d) America.

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

3. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
(a) 'sGravesande.
(b) Boerhaave.
(c) Locke.
(d) Musschenbroek.

4. In Chapter 4, Abbe Condillac claimed that ________ was the best language because it had the best symbols.
(a) Algebra.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Sign language.
(d) Japanese.

5. 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) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
(c) Isaac Barrow.
(d) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?

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. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?

4. Robert Whytt and Charles Aston studied the properties of ________ and ________ according, to the narrator in Chapter 4.

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, who was one of the originators of the mechanical philosophy who believed there were no forces or powers in matter?

(see the answer key)

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