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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. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Locke.
(d) Musschenbroek.

2. Early in the seventeenth century ________ urged the creation of a great dictionary that would bring together in an orderly fashion all of the practical knowledge that was known only to craftsmen in their respective trades.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) Chambers.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Montesquieu.

3. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
(a) Scientific Revolution.
(b) French Revolution.
(c) Enlightenment Revolution.
(d) American Revolution.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, who became a famous doctor and chemist and initiated the Dutch program in his oration of 1715 entitled "De comparando certo in physicis"?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Newton.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Mariotte.

5. When experimentalists studied electricity, the ________ and the ________ were candidates for study because they both appeared to protect themselves electrically.
(a) Leafy seadragon / Hagfish.
(b) Electric eel / sensitive plant.
(c) Komodo dragon / sloth.
(d) Great white shark / dolphin.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.

2. Van Helmont had proposed an ________ in the stomach that he believed to be the innermost essence of life and that acted by fermentation.

3. What was the name of the philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?

4. Chapter 6 explains that ________ created the first stirrings of Romanticism.

5. The ________ greatly increased the demand for certain chemical products, such as alkalis and mineral acids, and the search for improved methods of manufacture resulted in new chemical techniques in metallurgy, ceramics, and textiles, especially in textile dyeing and bleaching.

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