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