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