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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. ________ theory entered into law not only in the making of contracts but also in the determination of guilt and innocence.
(a) Chaos.
(b) Matrix.
(c) Probability.
(d) Quantum.

2. According to the beginning of Chapter 1, in 1759 the French mathematician ________ described a revolution that he saw taking place in natural philosophy.
(a) Newton.
(b) Jean Lerond d'Alembert.
(c) Carnot.
(d) Euler.

3. The following were the three primary kinds of government Montesquieu distinguished between in Chapter 6 except for which one?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Despotism.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Parliment.

4. Beginning in 1760, all of the following individuals were considered the three best experimentalists of the century who were all drawn to the ovist version of the preformation theory except for which one?
(a) Needham.
(b) Haller.
(c) Spallanzani.
(d) Bonnet.

5. Chapter 6 explains ________ requires a science of man that uses methods comparable to those of the physical sciences.
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Social science.
(d) Scientology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Haller carried out his famous investigations into the sensibility and irritability of __________, according to Chapter 5.

2. In 1728, what was the name of the English Quaker who published in London a two-volume "Cyclopaedia" or universal dictionary of the arts and sciences?

3. In 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.

4. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."

5. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.

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