Quiz: The Monadology

10 questions drawn at random. Score 80% for a silver medal.

1. What image does §57 use for the monads’ different views of one universe? A map drawn at different scales A face in many mirrors A town seen from various sides A song sung by many voices
2. Whom does §46 name as holding that eternal truths depend on God’s will? Locke and Newton Descartes and Poiret Malebranche and Arnauld Spinoza and Hobbes
3. In §28, who expects daylight tomorrow on rational grounds rather than empirically? The astronomer The physician of the rational school The farmer who keeps a calendar The theologian trusting providence
4. How does Leibniz define a “simple” substance in §1? Without parts Without change Without a body Without qualities
5. What experience does §20 give of a state in which the soul resembles a bare monad? Prayer in a state of ecstasy Intense and prolonged bodily pain A swoon or dreamless sleep Deep mathematical reflection
6. What does §18 call the monads, because of their self-sufficiency? Living mirrors of God Spiritual atoms Incorporeal automata Little suns
7. What does §71 compare all bodies to? Houses rented by souls Statues of fixed marble Clocks wound by God Rivers, with parts entering and leaving continually
8. How, according to §6, can a monad begin or end? Only by creation and annihilation Gradually, through growth and decay Through other monads By the combination and separation of parts
9. According to §19, which monads deserve the name of “souls”? Only human minds capable of reasoning Those with distinct perception and memory Only those monads joined to large organic bodies All monads whatever, since every one perceives
10. In the thought experiment of §17, what would we find on entering a thinking machine enlarged to the size of a mill? Only parts working on one another, never a perception A single simple substance at the centre A small soul seated among the wheels and directing them Nothing at all, since a machine cannot be enlarged so far

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