Question 1

Identify the following terms.
-philosophes

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-philosophes...

Question 2

Identify the following terms.
-Maria Theresa and Joseph II

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-Maria Theresa and Joseph...

Question 3

The philosophe who praised the checks and balances of the British constitution was

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A)  Diderot. 
B)  Voltaire. 
C)  Montesquieu. 
D)  Rousseau. 
E)  Descartes.

Question 4

In what ways did the career and policies of Napoleon fulfill,destroy,and/or move beyond the ideas and ideals of the early French Revolution? Was his regime a realization of the hopes of the philosophes? Why or why not?

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Question 5

Who,among the following,should NOT be considered an "enlightened despot"?

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A)  Frederick II 
B)  Louis XIV 
C)  Joseph II 
D)  Maria Theresa 
E)  Catherine the Great

Question 6

Identify the following terms.
-John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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-John Locke's Essay Concerning...

Question 7

Identify the following terms.
-the Constitution

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-the Constitution...

Question 8

Lyrical Rococo depictions of aristocratic life were expressed in the work of

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A)  William Hogarth. 
B)  Antoine Watteau. 
C)  Joachim Orlov. 
D)  Balthasar Neumann. 
E)  Johann Sebastian Bach.

Question 9

Identify the following terms.
-rentiers

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Question 10

Cartesian dualism

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A)  separated people on the basis of gender. 
B)  distinguished primarily between good and evil. 
C)  viewed mind and matter as two distinct and separate entities. 
D)  refuted the elipticism of Newton's rhetorical absolutes. 
E)  was initially developed by Bacon and Locke.

Question 11

Which of the following statements is an accurate depiction of the nature of the British Parliament in the latter half of the eighteenth century?

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A)  It was primarily composed of civil libertarians who advocated individual rights. 
B)  Its role was primarily that of a rubber stamp for the king. 
C)  It shared power with the king, gradually gaining the upper hand. 
D)  Uniquely, women could become Members of Parliament. 
E)  It failed to meet between 1753 and 1792.

Question 12

Which of the following was not an immediate result of the fall of Robespierre?

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A)  A period of stagnation and corruption ensued. 
B)  The Reign of Terror ended. 
C)  Moderate forces came to control the Revolution. 
D)  A new constitution was written that strove for stability by placing executive authority in the hands of the Directory. 
E)  Napoleon was elected President of France.

Question 13

Toussaint L'Ouverture led a royalist rebellion against the radicalism of French Revolution in the French colony of Saint Domingue.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

The person viewed as one of the founders of modern economics and known for the doctrine of laissez-faire was

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A)  John McDonald. 
B)  Adam Smith. 
C)  Robert Walpole. 
D)  Robert Burns. 
E)  Lord Gordon Brown.

Question 15

In eighteenth-century Europe,

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A)  it was illegal for a noble-class male to marry a middle-class female without a government dispensation everywhere except in Prussia and the Netherlands. 
B)  noble and bourgeois women dressed in the same fashion and were visually indistinguishable. 
C)  the peasants composed less than forty percent of the populations of Austria and France. 
D)  nobles constituted approximately two or three percent of the population. 
E)  factory workers had replaced farmers as the majority of the population.

Question 16

The system that came to be known as the "cottage industry" involved all except

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A)  the purchase, by an entrepreneur, of the raw materials needed for textile production. 
B)  country laborers producing yarn and cloth. 
C)  the selling of finished products by an entrepreneur. 
D)  peasants grew cotton on their farms and sold the raw material to entrepreneurs. 
E)  it was also known as the "putting-out" system.

Question 17

Identify the following terms.
-partitions of Poland

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Question 18

Identify the following terms.
-Toussaint L'Ouverture

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Question 19

The Ptolemaic view of the universe believed all of the following to be true except

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A)  the planets were believed to be imperfect and material. 
B)  the imperfect, motionless earth was in a state of constant change at the center of the universe. 
C)  heavenly bodies, composed of a crystalline substance, resided in concentric spheres that moved in circular orbits around the earth. 
D)  God and all the saved souls resided in the Empyrean Heaven that lay beyond the outermost, or tenth, sphere. 
E)  God and the saved souls were at one end of the universe and humans at the center.

Question 20

Identify the following terms.
-the Enlightenment

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Exam 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order

Identify the following terms. -philosophes

Identify the following terms. -Maria Theresa and Joseph II

The philosophe who praised the checks and balances of the British constitution was

In what ways did the career and policies of Napoleon fulfill,destroy,and/or move beyond the ideas and ideals of the early French Revolution? Was his regime a realization of the hopes of the philosophes? Why or why not?

Who,among the following,should NOT be considered an "enlightened despot"?

Identify the following terms. -John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Identify the following terms. -the Constitution

Lyrical Rococo depictions of aristocratic life were expressed in the work of

Identify the following terms. -rentiers