Question 1

Who believed that individuals should be free to pursue their own economic self-interest?

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A)  Rousseau 
B)  Adam Smith 
C)  Voltaire 
D)  Montesquieu 
E)  John Locke

Question 2

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
Reign of Terror

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Question 3

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Joseph II

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Question 4

Which revolution -- the American Revolution or the French Revolution - was the most "revolutionary"? Why? Be specific.

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Question 5

How did European ideas about the natures of, and the relationships between, science and religion change during the seventeenth century? Were these changes restricted to just the intellectual classes? Why and or why not?

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Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
enlightened absolutism

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Question 7

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old regime

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Question 8

The philosophes generally included all of the following people EXCEPT

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A)  the rural lower classes. 
B)  the urban middle classes. 
C)  social reformers. 
D)  professors. 
E)  journalists.

Question 9

Compare the "high" and "popular" cultures of the mid-eighteenth centuries to today's culture. Is there any "high culture" left in the modern world? If so, what, and if not, why not?

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Question 10

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
Committee of Public Safety

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Committee of...

Question 11

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Kepler

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Question 12

How "revolutionary" was the French Revolution? Give specific examples.

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Question 13

The Committee of Public Safety was established to

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A)  negotiate a military alliance with England. 
B)  combat the dual threat of internal rebellion and foreign invasion. 
C)  provide the nation with a renewed monarchy. 
D)  negotiate the safe return of French emigres . 
E)  control the ambitions of Napoleon.

Question 14

The Ptolemaic view of the universe argued that

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A)  the planets were 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 moon. 
D)  God and all the saved souls resided in the Empyrean Heaven that lay beyond the innermost, or tenth, sphere. 
E)  God and the saved souls were at the center of the universe.

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). 
nationalism

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Question 16

All of these statements regarding developments in the French Revolution prior to September 1792 are correct EXCEPT

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A)  the fall of the Bastille weakened the government. 
B)  the National Assembly created a basic declaration of liberties, and a new constitution to establish a limited monarchy. 
C)  Louis XVI destroyed his public standing by attempting to flee. 
D)  warfare broke out between France and Austria. 
E)  Louis XVI was an enthusiastic supporter of the revolutionary events.

Question 17

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cottage industry

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Question 18

Who was the first scientist to define elliptical planetary orbits?

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A)  Voltaire 
B)  Galileo Galilei 
C)  Nicolaus Copernicus 
D)  Ptolemy 
E)  Johannes Kepler

Question 19

The French Revolution

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A)  was precipitated by a noble-bourgeois dispute over the best way to deal with the large budgetary surpluses of 1788 and 1789. 
B)  actually had no real impact on either the economic or political status of peasants. 
C)  created no major gains, even temporarily, for women in such areas as divorce and inheritance. 
D)  created a "nation in arms" and an army of 650,000. 
E)  failed in its attempt to restore divine right monarchy to France.

Question 20

The first independent state in Latin America was Haiti.

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A) True 
 B)False

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

Who believed that individuals should be free to pursue their own economic self-interest?

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Reign of Terror

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Joseph II

Which revolution -- the American Revolution or the French Revolution - was the most "revolutionary"? Why? Be specific.

How did European ideas about the natures of, and the relationships between, science and religion change during the seventeenth century? Were these changes restricted to just the intellectual classes? Why and or why not?

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). enlightened absolutism

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). old regime

The philosophes generally included all of the following people EXCEPT

Compare the "high" and "popular" cultures of the mid-eighteenth centuries to today's culture. Is there any "high culture" left in the modern world? If so, what, and if not, why not?

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Committee of Public Safety

Instructions: Identify the following term(s). Kepler