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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. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.
(a) Newton.
(b) Locke.
(c) Fontenelle.
(d) Boyle.

2. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.
(a) 75.
(b) 30.
(c) 90.
(d) 8.

3. Who became the leading literary figure of the Enlightenment and in 1734 published "Philosophical Letters"?
(a) Newton.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Chatelet.
(d) Breteuil.

4. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?
(a) Tractrix.
(b) Brachistachrone.
(c) Catenary.
(d) Involute.

5. 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) Tractrix.
(b) Brachistachrone.
(c) Isoperimeters.
(d) Cycloid.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains in Chapter 6 that the ________ believed that the improvement of society could be brought about by making economic activity agree more closely with the laws implanted in nature by Providence.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 6, societies modeled after the Royal Society were founded at the following locations, except for which one?

3. The narrator reveals that Lavoisier heated water gently for ________days in a "pelican," an apparatus for constant distillation in which the water evaporates, then condenses, and finally runs back to be evaporated again.

4. Electricians in the following countries concluded from their experiments that electrified seeds germinated faster, that electrified plants sent out shoots earlier, and that electrified animals were slightly lighter than non-electrified ones, except for which country?

5. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?

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