Deck 25: The Limits of Reason

Question 1

American Eli Whitney invented which of the following in 1792?

A)the power loom
B)the steam engine
C)the cotton gin
D)the Bessemer process

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following was one of the Enlightenment's most outspoken critics?

A)Kant
B)Voltaire
C)Rousseau
D)Hogarth

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Questioning the value of reason for the advancement of the human condition,________ argued that society itself corrupted humankind.

A)Kant
B)Voltaire
C)Rousseau
D)Hogarth

Answer 3

C

Question 4

________'s engravings exposed the social ills and class discrepancies of British society,even as they mocked universal human vices.

A)Jonathan Swift
B)Olaudah Equiano
C)Voltaire
D)William Hogarth

Question 5

Explain the reasons for and consequences of the revolutions in America and in France.

Question 6

________,in his autobiography Travels,protested the trade in African slaves that persisted throughout the eighteenth century.

A)Jonathan Swift
B)Olaudah Equiano
C)Voltaire
D)William Hogarth

Question 7

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century gave way to the ________,which would continue for the next two hundred years.

A)Age of Reason
B)Enlightenment
C)Industrial Revolution
D)Protestant Reformation

Question 8

James Watt,a Scotsman,invented which of the following in 1775?

A)the power loom
B)the steam engine
C)the cotton gin
D)the Bessemer process

Question 9

The first production sector of the English economy to undergo transformation towards machinery was

A)transportation.
B)coal-mining.
C)textiles.
D)agriculture.

Question 10

Defend Voltaire's Candide as literary satire.

Question 11

Explain the role of satire as a literary instrument for attacking false values.

Question 12

The visible symbol of the old French regime occupied by the crowds of Paris during the early days of the French Revolution was the

A)Cathedral of Notre Dame.
B)palace at Versailles.
C)Bastille.
D)University of Paris.

Question 13

What is the subtitle of the satirical tale Candide,in which a blissfully naïve young man is set upon by a number of horrible circumstances?

A)Reality Met
B)How to Successfully Traverse Life
C)Life Is Good
D)Optimism

Question 14

Discuss the original purpose and the nature of transatlantic slave trade.

Question 15

Which of the following nations were allies to the American colonies during the Revolutionary War?

A)England
B)France
C)Spain
D)Italy

Question 16

________,whose classic satires,Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal,attack the moral pettiness and inhumanity of humankind.

A)Jonathan Swift
B)Olaudah Equiano
C)Voltaire
D)William Hogarth

Question 17

________'s Candide remains the classic statement of comic skepticism in Western literature.

A)Kant
B)Voltaire
C)Rousseau
D)Hogarth

Question 18

________ argued that human beings have knowledge of the world through certain innate capabilities of mind.

A)Kant
B)Voltaire
C)Rousseau
D)Hogarth

Question 19

Examine the revolt against reason in the writings of Rousseau and Kant in a short essay.

Question 20

Englishman Edmund Cartwright invented which of the following in 1785?

A)the power loom
B)the steam engine
C)the cotton gin
D)the Bessemer process