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