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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?
(a) Meteorology.
(b) Botany.
(c) Geology.
(d) Mixed mathematics.

2. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) A3E.
(b) R6Z.
(c) D2X.
(d) B3C.

3. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
(a) Natural magic.
(b) Black magic.
(c) Physics.
(d) Practical magic.

4. 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?
(a) Cycloid.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Brachistachrone.
(d) Tractrix.

5. 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.
(a) Polish priest.
(b) German psychologist.
(c) French electrician.
(d) American plumber.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following were the leading chemists and medical doctors, according to the beginning of Chapter 4, except for whom?

2. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.

3. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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