Deck 4: Famous Philosophers and Writers and Their Works

Question 1

Who said at human mind is like a blank slate upon which experience makes is imprint?

A)locke
B)newton
C)danton
D)rousseau

Answer 1

locke

Question 2

"The Spirit of Laws" was written by …………………………

A)bacon
B)hume
C)voltaire
D)newton

Answer 2

hume

Question 3

"All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu" who said this?

A)bacon
B)hume
C)voltaire
D)faguet

Answer 3

faguet

Question 4

Letters Persaneswas a significant work by ……………………..

A)montesquieu
B)voltaire
C)diderot
D)hume

Question 5

"I salute you, I love You, I revere you" to whom Diderot pay this compliment?

A)hume
B)aristotle
C)d' alembert
D)condillac

Question 6

According to Will and Ariel Durant, who formed "the profane trio"?

A)voltaire, diderot and rousseau
B)rousseau, hume and voltaire
C)voltaire, gibbon and locke
D)diderot, d' alembert and boswell

Question 7

Who wrote Emile?

A)napoleon
B)kant
C)dryden
D)rousseau

Question 8

The Critique of Pure Reason was a seminal work by ……………….

A)rousseau
B)kant
C)voltaire
D)hume

Question 9

"Liberty of action and thought alone is capable of producing great things and liberty requires enlightenment to preserve it from excess" Who affirms this?

A)alembert
B)locke
C)rousseau
D)hume

Question 10

Who wrote the novel La Religieuse(The Nun)?

A)locke
B)diderot
C)condillac
D)hume

Question 11

"In future people will look from afar at the universal head with mingled admiration and astonishment…"Whom did Rousseau eulogize saying this?

A)diderot
B)voltaire
C)hume
D)locke

Question 12

"We are tempted to regard him as e greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent of philosophers. Who is praised here?

A)locke
B)bacon
C)hume
D)plato

Question 13

Who is the author of The Treatise of Human Nature?

A)hume
B)rousseau
C)darwin
D)locke

Question 14

"His prophecy that workers could gain advantage through collective bargain came true" Who made this prophecy?

A)rousseau
B)voltaire
C)hume
D)gibbon

Question 15

"An Englishman like a freeman, goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses " Who made this statement?

A)voltaire
B)rousseau
C)gibbon
D)diderot

Question 16

Prof.Pangloss is a character appearing in………………..

A)voltaire's novelette candide
B)rousseau's emile
C)diderot's la religieuse
D)hume's history of england

Question 17

Who termed Primitive man as 'noble savage'?

A)rousseau
B)voltaire
C)locke
D)hume

Question 18

Who wrote "An Essay on Man"?

A)dryden
B)dr. johnson
C)wordsworth
D)pope

Question 19

Life becomes successful only after we ----------the knowledge we acquired.

A)Apply
B)Debate
C)report
D)capture

Question 20

The essay Of Studies stresses on the need for------

A)Practical wisdom
B)education
C)hard work
D)creativity

Question 21

Studies provide-------------in leisure hours

A)Energy
B)pleasure
C)stress
D)success

Question 22

Common man------book learning

A)Adapt
B)admire
C)adopt
D)None of the above

Question 23

Study of Law is a cure for-------------memory

A)Study
B)dull
C)unsteady
D)good

Question 24

Spending too much time on studies is---------

A)Good
B)sloth
C)compulsory
D)None of the above

Question 25

Cunning men find their cunningness as----------for book learning

A)substitute
B)device
C)inability
D)aid