The Eighteenth Century, Commonly Known in European History as the Age

Multiple Choice

The eighteenth century, commonly known in European history as the Age of Enlightenment, was marked by:

A) the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, which replaced tyranny and superstition.
B) a feeling everywhere in Europe that Europeans had at last emerged from a long cultural twilight.
C) the rediscovery of the brilliant reasoning of Thomas Aquinas and the other medieval scholastics.
D) a time in which European people knew little about the laws of nature and the value of rational analysis.