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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 4, what is the name of the group of financiers who obtained from the French government the right to collect taxes?
(a) Tax farm.
(b) Tax lawyer.
(c) Personal tax assistant.
(d) Fixed sum.
2. Natural theology in England continued well into the nineteenth century, where it finally encountered its nemesis in ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Foucault.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Freud.
3. Georg Stahl renamed the oily earth ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.
(a) Conspectus.
(b) Memoires.
(c) Subterranean.
(d) Phlogiston.
4. What was the name of the philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Maupertuis.
(c) Condorcet.
(d) Newton.
5. In Chapter 4, Turgot concluded from the experiments of ________ and ________ on evaporation in a vacuum that extensibility was a property not only of air but of all substances in a vaporous state.
(a) Nollet / Wallerius.
(b) Hales / Brockhausen.
(c) Newton / Franklin.
(d) Black / Cullen.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
2. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
3. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
4. Newton had not made it clear whether the forces acting between the planets and between the parts of matter acted at a distance or through some intervening medium called a(n) ________.
5. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?
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