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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 eighteenth century was called by the French the ________ because of its emphasis on reason as a path to knowledge.
(a) Century of light.
(b) Century of reason.
(c) Century of science.
(d) Century of life.

2. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Voltairian.
(b) Aristotlian.
(c) Newtonian.
(d) Platoian.

3. In February 1744, ________, master apothecary to the French Army, published an article on the red precipitate of mercury "per se" in "Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle, et sur les arts."
(a) Bayen.
(b) Turgot.
(c) Macquer.
(d) Lavoisier.

4. The narrator explains that the most important elements for the Chemical Revolution were ________ and ________.
(a) Air / fire.
(b) Air / Earth.
(c) Fire / Earth.
(d) Earth / Water.

5. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.
(a) Bayen.
(b) Black.
(c) Turgot.
(d) Macquer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Who carried rational mechanics to the highest point of generality and abstraction that it was to reach during the Enlightenment?

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

5. Chapter 5 states that ________ means an inquiry or investigation into nature.

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