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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. 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) Newton.
(c) Swift.
(d) Boyle.
2. 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?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) America.
3. As a mathematician and rigorous metaphysician, ________ believed that the universe in all past, present, and future states followed a "preestablished harmony" laid down by God at the time of creation.
(a) Haller.
(b) Buffon.
(c) Bourguet.
(d) Leibniz.
4. According to the narrator in Chapter 6, who coined the term physiocratie?
(a) Mirabeau.
(b) La Riviere.
(c) Nemours.
(d) Pmpadour.
5. In Chapter 4, the narrator reveals that Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was a famous French ________.
(a) Physicist.
(b) Chemist.
(c) Public servant.
(d) Philosopher.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 5, Ingen-Housz was able to show in his "Experiments on Vegetables" that it was ________ not ________, that was essential for the production of oxygen by the leaves.
2. The reintroduction of atomism into chemistry was accomplished by a meteorologist, ________, who became a chemist only when he saw the implications for chemistry of his ideas about the atmosphere.
3. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?
4. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, what was the key to a correct method whose model was mathematics?
5. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
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