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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 6 explains ________ requires a science of man that uses methods comparable to those of the physical sciences.
(a) Scientology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Social science.
2. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.
(a) Air.
(b) Water.
(c) Earth.
(d) Fire.
3. In Chapter 5, who analyzed the mechanics of the muscles and skeleton of the human body and tried to explain muscular contraction as a hydraulic or mechanical inflation of the tissue?
(a) Grew.
(b) Borelli.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Boyle.
4. 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?
(a) Wolff.
(b) Desaguliers.
(c) Chatelet.
(d) 'sGravesande.
5. 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) Enlightenment Revolution.
(c) French Revolution.
(d) American Revolution.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, what was the key to a correct method whose model was mathematics?
2. In Chapter 2, who was the greatest analyst of the Enlightenment and created mathematical theories to predict the buckling of columns and beams?
3. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
4. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
5. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
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