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