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.

Joseph Priestly and Henry Cavendish continued to use the term ________ for the action of fire in combustion, in Chapter 4. (from Chapter 4, Chemistry)

2.

In Chapter 5, Ingen-Housz was able to show in his "Experiments on Vegetables" that it was ________ not ________, that was essential for the production of oxygen by the leaves. (from Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology)

3.

Joseph Black studied ________, which had only recently been used as a medicine, according to Chapter 4. (from Chapter 4, Chemistry)

4.

The mathematical study of probability had begun in 1654 in a correspondence between ________ and ________. (from Chapter 6, The Moral Sciences)

5.

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)

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