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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. According to the narrator in Chapter 6, the ________ philosophers found their principles in a special human sentiment or intuitive sociability.
(a) American.
(b) Irish.
(c) Scottish.
(d) French.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 6, what where the two great national academies that were the models on which the new academies of the eighteenth century were founded?
(a) International School of Georgia / German School of Athens.
(b) Royal Society of London / Paris Academy of Science.
(c) International School of Luxembourg / Crossroads Christian Academy.
(d) International Bilingual School of Provence / Black Forest Academy.

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?
(a) Tractrix.
(b) Cycloid.
(c) Involute.
(d) Isoperimeters.

4. 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?
(a) Chambers.
(b) Condorcet.
(c) Persia.
(d) Bacon.

5. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
(a) Newton.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Desagulier.
(d) Musschenbroek.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opened his "Spirit of the Laws" with a definition of law in Chapter 6?

2. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

3. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?

4. In 1688, who had shown that the insect larva, pupa, and imago can exist simultaneously, all nested one within the other?

5. Who saw his physiology as an animata anatome, an experimental science that investigated and explained the special properties and functions of living matter without going beyond the information obtained from the senses?

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