Question 1

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Johann Sebastian Bach

Accepted Answer

Johann Sebastian Bach was a German compo

Question 2

An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was

Accepted Answer

A)  Mary Wollstonecraft. 
B)  Marie Antoinette. 
C)  Mary Astell. 
D)  Catherine the Great. 
E)  the Marquise du Chatelet. 
A)  Mary Wollstonecraft. 
B)  Marie Antoinette. 
C)  Mary Astell. 
D)  Catherine the Great. 
E)  the Marquise du Chatelet.

Question 3

IDENTIFICATIONS
-the salon and the coffeehouse

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The salon and the coffeehouse are both s

Question 4

Which eighteenth-century composer was considered most innovative and wrote the opera, The Marriage of Figaro?

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A)  Bach 
B)  Handel 
C)  Haydn 
D)  Beethoven 
E)  Mozart 
A)  Bach 
B)  Handel 
C)  Haydn 
D)  Beethoven 
E)  Mozart

Question 5

Adam Smith was a mercantilist disguised as a proto-capitalist.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The scientist-philosopher who provides a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the next was

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A)  Voltaire. 
B)  Diderot. 
C)  Hume. 
D)  Beccaria. 
E)  Fontenelle. 
A)  Voltaire. 
B)  Diderot. 
C)  Hume. 
D)  Beccaria. 
E)  Fontenelle.

Question 7

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Addison and Steele's Spectator

Accepted Answer

Addison and Steele's Spectator was a dai

Question 8

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

Accepted Answer

Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" is

Question 9

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Marie-Therese de Geoffrin

Accepted Answer

Marie-Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin (1699–1777)

Question 10

Isaac Newton and John Locke

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A)  created two antagonistic religious systems of thought. 
B)  provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by arguing that through rational reasoning and the acquisition of knowledge one could discover natural laws governing all aspects of human society. 
C)  claimed that mathematics and science would bring about the cure for the evils of society but only very slowly. 
D)  said the philosophes were the prophets of the future and that their rejection of the scientific revolution was justified. 
E)  had little influence on the later Enlightenment as they were perceived to be figures of the "old" seventeenth century. 
A)  created two antagonistic religious systems of thought. 
B)  provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by arguing that through rational reasoning and the acquisition of knowledge one could discover natural laws governing all aspects of human society. 
C)  claimed that mathematics and science would bring about the cure for the evils of society but only very slowly. 
D)  said the philosophes were the prophets of the future and that their rejection of the scientific revolution was justified. 
E)  had little influence on the later Enlightenment as they were perceived to be figures of the "old" seventeenth century.

Question 11

Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws

Accepted Answer

Montesquieu's "The Spirit of the Laws" (

Question 12

Pierre Bayle

Accepted Answer

Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher an

Question 13

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia

Accepted Answer

Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, also known

Question 14

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Condorcet and Baron d'Holbach

Accepted Answer

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, b

Question 15

In eighteenth-century Europe, churches, both Catholic and Protestant,

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A)  declined in numbers and influence. 
B)  still played a major role in social and spiritual areas. 
C)  was responsible for the dramatic role in literary. 
D)  had not changed much in two centuries. 
E)  were legally separated from any state or government connections. 
A)  declined in numbers and influence. 
B)  still played a major role in social and spiritual areas. 
C)  was responsible for the dramatic role in literary. 
D)  had not changed much in two centuries. 
E)  were legally separated from any state or government connections.

Question 16

Montesquieu's Persian Letters

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A)  expressed his admiration of Islam and the East. 
B)  was a translation of a great literary work from ancient Persia. 
C)  was a method that allowed him to criticize the Catholic Church and the French monarchy. 
D)  was first written Latin but later translated into French. 
E)  was published first in Italy. 
A)  expressed his admiration of Islam and the East. 
B)  was a translation of a great literary work from ancient Persia. 
C)  was a method that allowed him to criticize the Catholic Church and the French monarchy. 
D)  was first written Latin but later translated into French. 
E)  was published first in Italy.

Question 17

To what extent did "high culture" and "popular culture" influence one another?

Accepted Answer

High culture and popular culture have in

Question 18

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews

Accepted Answer

Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews are two ma

Question 19

Deism is the belief that

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A)  religion is fairy tales to frighten the superstitious. 
B)  if God exists, he has no interest in the world. 
C)  God created the universe but does not actively run it 
D)  a transcendent spirit controls every event. 
E)  praying matters. 
A)  religion is fairy tales to frighten the superstitious. 
B)  if God exists, he has no interest in the world. 
C)  God created the universe but does not actively run it 
D)  a transcendent spirit controls every event. 
E)  praying matters.

Question 20

The French philosophes

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A)  flourished in an atmosphere of government support. 
B)  sought no extension of Enlightenment to other disciplines. 
C)  were literate intellectuals who meant to change the world through reason and rationality. 
D)  supported state censorship of ideas contrary to their own. 
E)  were widely influenced by Jean Jacques Rousseau and his emphasis upon emotions. 
A)  flourished in an atmosphere of government support. 
B)  sought no extension of Enlightenment to other disciplines. 
C)  were literate intellectuals who meant to change the world through reason and rationality. 
D)  supported state censorship of ideas contrary to their own. 
E)  were widely influenced by Jean Jacques Rousseau and his emphasis upon emotions.

IDENTIFICATIONS -Johann Sebastian Bach

An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was

IDENTIFICATIONS -the salon and the coffeehouse

Which eighteenth-century composer was considered most innovative and wrote the opera, The Marriage of Figaro?

Adam Smith was a mercantilist disguised as a proto-capitalist.

The scientist-philosopher who provides a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the next was

IDENTIFICATIONS -Addison and Steele's Spectator

IDENTIFICATIONS -Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

IDENTIFICATIONS -Marie-Therese de Geoffrin

Isaac Newton and John Locke

Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws

Pierre Bayle

IDENTIFICATIONS -Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia

IDENTIFICATIONS -Condorcet and Baron d'Holbach

In eighteenth-century Europe, churches, both Catholic and Protestant,

Montesquieu's Persian Letters

To what extent did "high culture" and "popular culture" influence one another?

IDENTIFICATIONS -Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews

Deism is the belief that

The French philosophes

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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Exam 5: The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

IDENTIFICATIONS -Johann Sebastian Bach

An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was

IDENTIFICATIONS -the salon and the coffeehouse

Which eighteenth-century composer was considered most innovative and wrote the opera, The Marriage of Figaro?

Adam Smith was a mercantilist disguised as a proto-capitalist.

The scientist-philosopher who provides a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the next was

IDENTIFICATIONS -Addison and Steele's Spectator

IDENTIFICATIONS -Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

IDENTIFICATIONS -Marie-Therese de Geoffrin

Isaac Newton and John Locke

Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws

Pierre Bayle

IDENTIFICATIONS -Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia

IDENTIFICATIONS -Condorcet and Baron d'Holbach

In eighteenth-century Europe, churches, both Catholic and Protestant,

Montesquieu's Persian Letters

To what extent did "high culture" and "popular culture" influence one another?

IDENTIFICATIONS -Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews

Deism is the belief that

The French philosophes

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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