Deck 4: Famous Works and Figures of the Enlightenment ERA and French Revolution

Question 1

Who wrote the philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts?

A)francis bacon
B)thomas hobbes
C)descartes
D)rousseau

Answer 1

rousseau

Question 2

The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality was written by ………………..

A)francis bacon
B)thomas hobbes
C)descartes
D)rousseau

Answer 2

rousseau

Question 3

Whose major work on political philosophy was the The Social Contract?

A)francis bacon
B)thomas hobbes
C)descartes
D)rousseau

Answer 3

rousseau

Question 4

'The Confessions'was the Autobiography of ………………..

A)francis bacon
B)thomas hobbes
C)descartes
D)rousseau

Question 5

Voltaire was a prolific writer, philosopher, poet and the preeminent figure of the 18th century ………..Enlightenment.

A)italian
B)french
C)american
D)english

Question 6

Who Wrote Philosophical Dictionary?

A)voltaire
B)rousseau
C)montesquieu
D)descartes

Question 7

_____________.'s most famous work was 'A Treatise for Toleration'.

A)voltaire
B)rousseau
C)montesquieu
D)descartes

Question 8

In Common Sense, …………made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent.

A)henry perrine
B)thomas paine
C)francis bacon
D)thomas carlyle

Question 9

Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason?

A)henry perrine
B)thomas paine
C)francis bacon
D)thomas carlyle

Question 10

_____________'s main work was 'The Spirit of the Laws'(1753).

A)voltaire
B)rousseau
C)montesquieu
D)descartes

Question 11

Fall of Bastille in the year 14th July ………………

A)1787
B)1788
C)1789
D)1790

Question 12

_____________…said, 'my real glory is not having won 40 battles, what will endure for ever is my civil code'.

A)hitler
B)mussolini
C)napoleon
D)luis xiv

Question 13

On 21st January …………. Louis XVI of France was guillotined.

A)1791
B)1792
C)1793
D)1794

Question 14

Guillotine was invented by Ignacio Guillotine, a ………….physician.

A)german
B)french
C)japanese
D)russian

Question 15

. _____________ connected with the reign of terror in France.

A)hitler
B)mussolini
C)robespear
D)luis xiv

Question 16

_____________….was the child of French Revolution and the hero of France.

A)hitler
B)mussolini
C)napoleon
D)luis xiv

Question 17

"I was born when my country was dying". Who said?

A)hitler
B)mussolini
C)napoleon
D)luis xiv

Question 18

In the Battle of Waterloo on 12th June 1815 A.D …………was decisively defeated by the Duke of Wellington.

A)hitler
B)mussolini
C)napoleon
D)luis xiv