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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Moral Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The ________ class in France was composed of those who manufactured and distributed goods made from the raw materials produced by the productive class.
(a) Huygen.
(b) Pascal.
(c) Quesnay.
(d) Artisan.

2. Acknowledging the existence of the gaseous states was a prerequisite for explaining combustion, the central problem of the ________, according to the narrator in chapter 4.
(a) Scientific Revolution.
(b) French Revolution.
(c) Industrial Revolution.
(d) Chemical Revolution.

3. Haller carried out his famous investigations into the sensibility and irritability of __________, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Animal tissue.
(b) Human tissue.
(c) Water.
(d) Plant tissue.

4. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.
(a) Turgot.
(b) Black.
(c) Macquer.
(d) Bayen.

5. Chapter 5 states that ________ means an inquiry or investigation into nature.
(a) Natural history.
(b) Neurology.
(c) Naturology.
(d) Physiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following Rousseau's book on education begins: "All is good as it leaves the hands of the author of things"?

2. 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?

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

4. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.

5. ________'s emphasis on the repulsive or expansive property of air, led naturally to an emphasis on the expansive properties of the even more subtle fluids of heat and electricity.

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