Chapter 18 Review Quiz
1. Before the scientific revolution, people seeking
scientific information generally found it in
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The Bible
Statements issued by the church
The writings of Aristotle.
The writings of St. Thomas Aquinas
Chinese texts
2. Kepler’s relationship to the Copernican thesis was to
A. Prove it by using the telescope
B. Reject it as had his mentor Tycho Brahe
C. Challenge it because it did not include the
harmony of the spheres
D. Provide mathematical proof for it
E. Denounce Galileo for denying the church
3. Newton provided the theory to explain which of
Galileo’s observations?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
That Jupiter has moons as Earth does
That the moon’s surface is uneven and rough
That the Milky Way is filled with stars
That the moon is not perfectly spherical
That bodies have a uniform rate of acceleration
4. Cartesian Dualism can be best described as the
division between
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Truth and untruth
Science and humanities
Mind and matter
Right and wrong
The heavens and earth
5. Which was not a cause of the scientific revolution?
A. The recovery of ancient mathematical texts
during the Renaissance
B. The search for the physical location of the soul
within the body
C. The patronage of princes and kings
D. New technology
E. The establishment of chairs in physics and
mathematics at universities
6. Who first articulated the social usefulness of scientific
knowledge?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Galileo
Bacon
Kepler
Newton
Margaret Cavendish
7. The chief difference between the scientific revolution
and the Enlightenment is
A. The gender of the scientists, all male, and the
philosophes, many female.
B. The country in which it began
C. The focus on scientific inquiry
D. The religions of scientists and philosophes
E. The attitude of the church
8. Which philosophe believed in popular sovereignty?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Fontenelle
Diderot
9. Descartes and Bayle would agree on the importance
of
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Mathematics
Doubt
Empirical research
Believing in God
Constitutional monarchy
10. Locke’s concept of the tabula rasa was taken in the
eighteenth century to mean that
A. Humans were not born with original sin
B. Public education ought to be established for all
children
C. Enlightened monarchy was the best form of
government
D. Rebellion was a natural right
E. Parents could have little influence over their
children
Chapter 18 Review Quiz
11. Madame de Chatelet’s importance in the
Enlightenment was due to her role as
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
an important salonniere
a correspondent of Catherine the Great
Mistress of Voltaire
Adviser to Peter the Great
Translator of Newton
12. Which was a common practice of the enlightened
monarchs?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Abolition of serfdom
Religious tolerance for Jews
Public education
Abolition of torture
Re-establishing legislative assemblies
13. Catherine the Great’s effort at reform came to a
virtual end when
A. The nobles of Russia resisted
B. Voltaire publicly criticized her, thus humiliating
her
C. The peasants rose in the Pugachev revolt
D. Prussia declared war on Russia
E. She was assassinated by a former lover
14. Diderot’s Encyclopedia
A. Was published in its entirety in France
B. Democratized knowledge
C. Was read by a small amount of people because
it was so expensive
D. Had little technical information
E. Was published in part by funds from Frederick
the Great
15. The term reading revolution refers to
A. Nearly universal literacy in the eighteenth
century
B. The new literacy of women
C. The way of reading became private and silent
D. The great expansion in the number and variety
of newspapers during the Enlightenment.
E. The public reading of the texts of the
philosophes.