Exam 15: Enlightenment: Challenging the Prevailing Order, 1740-1780

The interest in travel and exploration during the eighteenth century led to the Royal Society engaging Captain Cook to make an expedition.Which of the following correctly describes Cook's legacy?

Which of the following authors wrote novels that were known for being absorbing and that were in the form of letters written by heroines?

Enlightenment-era reformers devoted a great deal of energy to practical matters including better sewage and street lighting.

Salons were once venues open to ordinary people, but in the eighteenth century, they increasingly were limited to nobles who used them to study the customs of royal courts.

Which of the following statements describes Joseph II's understanding of reform in Austria during the Enlightenment?

What were confraternities, and why were they important?

Cosmopolitanism was encouraged by nobles' and professionals' doing which of the following?

The large increase in agricultural production in the "charmed circle" of northern Europe was due to

Which of the following statements correctly describes the life of the majority of peasants in southern and eastern Europe?

What was the importance of the Wilkes affair?

What were the key differences between cosmopolitanism and anti-cosmopolitanism?

By 1760, British colonies had a far greater population than the French colonies did from New Orleans to Montana.

Rousseau's Confessions made use of the psychological techniques of the novel.

Which of the following was a cause of the large increase in agricultural production in most countries in Europe, with the exception of the "charmed circle"?

Which of the following statements correctly describes the "middling sort" of the eighteenth century?

Paradoxically, how did the Church itself contribute to the decline in religious observance in general?

David Hume's book The Natural History of Religion aligned the Scottish Enlightenment with

Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws and was the key figure in re-envisioning a true, practical science of society?

Which of the following statements describes the emblematic Enlightenment work, the Encyclopedia by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert?

Which of the following statements about public culture in Europe during the eighteenth centuries is correct?