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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 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.
(a) 365.
(b) 30.
(c) 90.
(d) 101.

2. Chapter 5 reveals that in ________, natural theology declined after 1750 as a result of the anti-religious sentiment of the Enlightenment.
(a) England.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) America.

3. Lavoisier, along with the chemists Macquer, Cadet, and Brisson, performed experiments on ________ at the highest temperature available.
(a) Rubies.
(b) Magnets.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Gold.

4. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Natural theology.
(c) Physiology.
(d) Mied mathematics.

5. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Jean d'Alembert.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Locke.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, who was also a philosopher, mathematician, and member of the French Academy of Sciences?

2. What was the name of the leader of the natural history revival in England and the best naturalist of his age, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

3. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 6, the ________ philosophers found their principles in a special human sentiment or intuitive sociability.

5. The ________ class in France was composed of those who manufactured and distributed goods made from the raw materials produced by the productive class.

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