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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu, and Carl Linnaeus were considered ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.
(a) Cardiologists.
(b) Naturalists.
(c) Zoologists.
(d) Podiatrists.

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

3. In Chapter 5, who wrote, "We may conclude that the organs of the body have not always existed, but have been formed successively - no matter how this formation has been brought about"?
(a) Wolff.
(b) Spallanzani.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Haller.

4. All of the following were the leading chemists and medical doctors, according to the beginning of Chapter 4, except for whom?
(a) Black.
(b) Boerhaave.
(c) Stahl.
(d) Rumford.

5. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.
(a) America.
(b) England.
(c) Germany.
(d) Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1688, who had shown that the insect larva, pupa, and imago can exist simultaneously, all nested one within the other?

2. 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.

3. The ________, who had been leaders in experimental physics during the seventeenth century, continued to hold a prominent place until their order was suppressed in 1773.

4. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."

5. In 1769, ________, a student of Joseph Black's at Glasgow, measured the repulsion between charges with an apparatus that balanced the electrical repulsion against gravitational attraction.

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