View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Moral Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who concluded in Chapter 6 that "where experiments {from cautious observations of human life} are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science, which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension"?
(a) Montesquieu.
(b) Hume.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Bayle.

2. According to Chapter 4, what is another name for nitrous oxide?
(a) Blinding gas.
(b) Tear gas.
(c) Laughing gas.
(d) Shocking gas.

3. Before 1740, the standard authorities in physiology were all of the following individuals except for whom?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) Borelli.
(c) Bellini.
(d) Newton.

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) Newton.
(b) Boerhaave.
(c) Mariotte.
(d) Musschenbroek.

5. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."
(a) Maupertuis.
(b) Malebranche.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Alexis-Claude Clairaut.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, who noticed that when he pulled off his silk socks in the evening, "they frequently made a crackling or snapping noise" and emitted "sparks of fire"?

2. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?

3. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?

4. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

5. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 282 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample