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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. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Musschenbroek.
(b) Desagulier.
(c) Newton.
(d) Franklin.
2. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, who became a famous doctor and chemist and initiated the Dutch program in his oration of 1715 entitled "De comparando certo in physicis"?
(a) Mariotte.
(b) Newton.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Boerhaave.
3. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?
(a) Franklin.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Newton.
(d) Eddison.
4. Who was France's greatest hero of the Enlightenment partly because he was from England, the source of free thought and liberty and partly because he had solved the riddle of the planets, showing that their motions obeyed the same laws as motions on earth?
(a) Fontenelle.
(b) Swift.
(c) Newton.
(d) Boyle.
5. The eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of reason.
(b) Century of science.
(c) Century of life.
(d) Century of light.
Short Answer Questions
1. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
2. The narrator explained in Chapter 4 that there was very little in Lavoisier's activities prior to 1772 that revealed any interest in ________.
3. The discipline of physics had originally been created by ________, and it had nothing to do with experiment or quantitative measure nor was it limited to the inorganic world.
4. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.
5. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?
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