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