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