Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Quiz
A) Emile, or On Education B) Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men C) The Social Contract D) Confessions
A) American Revolution B) French Revolution C) Russian Revolution D) Chinese Communist Revolution
A) The People B) The Monarch C) The Aristocracy D) The General Will
A) Educational Systems B) Religious Institutions C) Political Parties D) Private Property
A) Individual Will B) General Will C) Popular Will D) Majority Rule
A) Kant B) Voltaire C) Descartes D) Locke
A) Percy Bysshe Shelley B) Lord Byron C) John Keats D) William Wordsworth
A) Second Discourse B) First Discourse C) Social Discourse D) Political Discourse
A) Gender B) Parents' Will C) Social Class D) Nature
A) John James Rousseau B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau C) Jean Jacques Rousseau D) Jacques Rousseau
A) Paris B) Bern C) Geneva D) Turin
A) Huguenot republic and the seat of Calvinism B) Catholic majority C) Secular state D) Protestant minority
A) Farming B) Watchmaking C) Teaching D) Law
A) Almost dying, they had little hope of saving me B) A joyous occasion for the family C) An uneventful birth D) A difficult but successful delivery
A) Anne Rousseau B) Suzanne Bernard Rousseau C) Marie Rousseau D) Elisabeth Rousseau
A) He spoke against the government B) He was accused of theft C) He entered a quarrel with visiting English officers D) He refused to pay taxes
A) Philosophical treatises B) Romances (adventure stories) C) Historical texts D) Scientific journals
A) Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans B) Virgil's Aeneid C) Homer's Iliad D) Ovid's Metamorphoses
A) He thought they were poorly organized B) He believed they were unnecessary C) He saw them as the embodiment of popular spirit in opposition to rulers' armies D) He viewed them as oppressive
A) 18 B) 13 C) 17 D) 15
A) His uncle B) A Roman Catholic priest C) A Protestant minister D) A fellow student
A) Reaction to Calvinism's insistence on total depravity of man B) Pressure from peers C) Influence from his father D) Desire for social status
A) He moved to England B) He became a priest C) He started a business D) He gave up his Genevan citizenship
A) By selling paintings B) By farming C) As a servant, secretary, and tutor D) Through inheritance
A) Voltaire B) Stéphanie Louise de Bourbon-Conti C) Diderot D) Montesquieu
A) 'Maman' B) 'Madame' C) 'Maîtresse' D) 'Amie'
A) Denis Diderot B) A member of the Académie des Sciences C) Jean-Baptiste Lully D) Voltaire
A) Philosophical debates B) Italian music, particularly opera C) Venetian architecture D) French literature
A) Mme. d'Épinay B) Thérèse Levasseur C) Sophie d'Houdetot D) Madame de Francueil
A) Cook B) Teacher C) Nurse D) Seamstress
A) Du Contrat Social B) Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse C) La serva padrona D) Le devin du village (The Village Soothsayer)
A) A title of nobility B) A position as a royal tutor C) An invitation to the court D) A lifelong pension
A) Music theory B) Religious belief C) Inequality among men D) Political economy
A) Confessions B) Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse C) Du Contrat Social D) Émile, or On Education
A) Calvinists B) Genevan citizens C) Italian musicians D) Encyclopédistes
A) Autobiography B) Political treatise C) Epistolary novel D) Opera libretto
A) No record could be found B) He discovered his son had become a scholar C) His son rejected him D) His son became wealthy
A) Émile B) Confessions C) The Social Contract D) Discourse on Inequality
A) Italy B) Germany C) England D) Switzerland
A) A letter of recommendation B) A personal visit C) An invitation to his court D) A hundred crowns
A) Five B) Two C) Four D) Three
A) Spinoza B) Montesquieu C) Malebranche D) Diderot
A) Public celebration B) Religious ceremony C) Private affair D) Faux civil ceremony
A) Illogical B) Ordinary C) Genius D) Logical
A) Voltaire B) Conti C) Renou D) Mirabeau
A) Grimm B) Diderot C) Horace Walpole D) Voltaire
A) Strasbourg B) London C) Paris D) Neuchâtel
A) A philosopher king B) A famous anchorite, or desert father C) A playwright D) A military leader
A) Voltaire B) Horace Coignet C) Madame d'Épinay D) The Prince of Conti
A) Voltaire B) Diderot C) Hume D) James Boswell
A) Daphnis et Chloé B) Les Muses galantes C) Le Devin du village D) Pygmalion
A) Jean-Baptiste Blanchard B) Voltaire C) Benjamin Constant D) Frédéric Bastiat
A) A playful hoax B) A serious critique of Rousseau C) A literary tribute to Frederick the Great D) An official diplomatic correspondence
A) New Humanism B) Realism C) Romanticism D) Enlightenment
A) Frédéric Bastiat B) Benjamin Constant C) Edmund Burke D) Hannah Arendt
A) The Sorbonne B) The Paris Conservatory C) The Royal Academy of Music D) The Académie des Sciences
A) Harmony must have priority over melody. B) Rhythm must have priority over melody. C) Dynamics must have priority over harmony. D) Melody must have priority over harmony.
A) Strict discipline B) Physical punishment C) Natural consequences D) Reward systems
A) Benjamin Constant B) Frédéric Bastiat C) Jacques Barzun D) Edmund Burke
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau B) Denis Diderot C) David Hume D) Horace Walpole
A) Dover B) Wootton Hall C) Calais D) Chiswick
A) Tolstoy B) Chekhov C) Pushkin D) Dostoevsky
A) "Let us remove these stones." B) "My God, it's a quarry!" C) "We must arrest him immediately!" D) "This is an outrage!"
A) Paris B) Môtiers C) Île de St.-Pierre D) Strasbourg
A) Marquis Girardin B) Voltaire C) Jean-Jacques Hume D) King Louis XVI
A) Self-preservation instinct B) Empathy for one's species C) Moral obligations D) Vanity or amour-propre
A) Herder B) Voltaire C) Diderot D) Carlyle
A) Edmund Burke B) Voltaire C) Jean-Baptiste Blanchard D) Benjamin Constant
A) James Madison B) George Washington C) Noah Webster D) Thomas Jefferson
A) Monarchical government B) Oligarchic government C) Republican government D) Theocratic government
A) Moral obligations B) Empathy for others C) Vanity or amour-propre D) Self-preservation instinct
A) Published his own version immediately B) Retired to solitude C) Started writing The Social Contract D) Maintained a public silence
A) Deism B) Catholicism C) Atheism D) Protestantism
A) Symptoms indicating epileptic seizures B) Complete recovery from injuries C) Immediate return to health D) Development of a new philosophical theory
A) Kant B) Herder C) Goethe D) Schiller
A) 21 June 1767 B) 30 August 1768 C) 29 January 1768 D) 22 May 1767
A) Louis XVI B) King George III C) Napoleon Bonaparte D) Frederick the Great
A) Jean-Philippe Rameau B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart C) Ludwig van Beethoven D) Christoph Willibald Gluck
A) 16 February 1766 B) 31 December 1765 C) 1 January 1766 D) 1 December 1765
A) Because it was economically unstable B) Because it lacked natural resources C) Because it had a strong monarchy D) Because it was too big
A) Ryan Hanley B) Istvan Hont C) Hansong Li D) Joseph Schumpeter
A) Indifferent B) A scolding C) Inspirational D) Complimentary
A) Rue Platrière B) Amiens C) Bourgoin D) Trie
A) Edmund Burke B) Jean-Baptiste Blanchard C) Voltaire D) Benjamin Constant
A) Law B) Medicine C) Theology D) Carpentry
A) Samuel von Pufendorf B) Thomas Hobbes C) Montesquieu D) John Locke
A) Rousseau moved to Île de St.-Pierre. B) Rousseau was arrested by the local authorities. C) A fire broke out in Rousseau's residence. D) Stones were thrown at Rousseau's house, shattering some windows.
A) Great Dane B) Horse C) Cat D) Wolf
A) Clair de Lune by Debussy B) Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven C) Willow Song from Othello D) The Four Seasons by Vivaldi
A) 1789 B) 1804 C) 1815 D) 1794
A) Monastic life B) The bourgeois nuclear family C) The extended family D) Communal living
A) The city B) In a boarding school C) In an urban center D) The countryside
A) Betty Friedan B) Simone de Beauvoir C) Mary Wollstonecraft D) Virginia Woolf
A) Cipher notation B) Boustrophedon notation C) Tablature D) Staff notation
A) 1765 B) 1782 C) 1776 D) 1770
A) Aristotle B) Maria Montessori C) Socrates D) Plato
A) Frédéric Bastiat B) Edmund Burke C) Charles Maurras D) Benjamin Constant
A) Natural instincts B) Social institutions C) Moral significance D) Free choice
A) Calvinism B) Methodism C) Protestantism D) Catholicism
A) Voltaire B) Diderot C) Hume D) The Prince of Conti |
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