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