Science and the Enlightenment Quiz

Thomas L. Hankins
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Science and the Enlightenment.

Science and the Enlightenment Quiz

Thomas L. Hankins
This Study Guide consists of approximately 29 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Science and the Enlightenment.

Take our free Science and the Enlightenment quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

The narrator explains in Chapter 6 that the ________ believed that the improvement of society could be brought about by making economic activity agree more closely with the laws implanted in nature by Providence. (from Chapter 6, The Moral Sciences)

2.

What was the name of the leader of the natural history revival in England and the best naturalist of his age, according to the narrator in Chapter 5? (from Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology)

3.

________'s emphasis on the repulsive or expansive property of air, led naturally to an emphasis on the expansive properties of the even more subtle fluids of heat and electricity. (from Chapter 3, Experimental Physics)

4.

Joseph Black studied chemistry with ________ at Glasgow, serving for three years as his assistant, according to Chapter 4. (from Chapter 4, Chemistry)

5.

Haller carried out his famous investigations into the sensibility and irritability of __________, according to Chapter 5. (from Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology)

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