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1.“As historians from Karl Marx through Georges
Lefebvre and Albert Soboul have argued, the main
accomplishment of the French Revoluton was to
abolish feudalism in
France and to clear the
ground for capitalist economic expansion and the
rule of the bourgeoisie.”
Which of the following views is consistent with the
interpretation above?
(A) The Revolution strengthened the domination of
landed proprietors in France
(B) The Revolution eliminated guilds, seigneurial
rights, and other obstacles to French
agricultural and industrial advance
(C) The long-term transition from feudalism to
capitalism occurred over many centuries, not
between 1789 and 1794
(D) The Revolution abolished private property in
France and thus created a modern democratic
society
(E) Both before and after the Revolution, France was
ruled by leaders drawn from the ranks of the
nobility and bourgeouisie
2.The Directory turned to the military because
a. It lost the support of the sans culottes
b. It lost the support of the nobility
c. It was threatened by both Jacobin and
Royalist opposition
d. It feared it would lose the next election
e. It was overthrown by a general
3. “What is the Third Estate?” was written by
a. Abbe Sieyes
b. Edward Fitzgerald
c. Charles Nuarice de Tallyrand-Perigord
d. Sir Walter Scott
4. Revolutionary policies regarding what
organization garnered the most domestic
opposition?
a. the secret police
b. the Napoleanic Code
c. bread prices
d. the French Catholic Church
5. The aristocracy created by Napolean differed from
that of the Ancien Regime in that
a. Titles were not passed down to heirs
b. Nobles were allowed to sit in a special
legislative body
c. All nobles enjoyed a tax-free status
d. The Napoleanic code excluded then from
appearing in court
e. Nobles were responsible for local
government
6.Which of the following policies did Napolean I of
France and Peter the Great of Russia both use?
a. Codification of the law
b. Promoting individuals , based on talent
c. Balancing the budget
d. Reforming social practice at court
e. Coming to an agreement with the papacy
7.Napolean Bonaparte gained power of France
through
a. A plebebiscite
b. A coup d’etat
c. An election
d. An act of war
e. A treaty
8.Napolean’s Civil Code allowed for
a. The elimination of private property
b. Full property rights for women
c. Special rights for those holding aristocratic
titles
d. Taxation of all social classes
e. Judges to make binding precedents
9.Napolean’s 1801 Concordat with the Catholic
Church
a. Brought to a permanent close the churchstate conflict in Franch
b. One again made Catholicism the state
church of France
c. Brought about the expulsion of French
Protestants
d. Led the papacy to support the ideals of the
French Revolution
e. Left the Church under the supervison of
the state
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10.Part of Napolean’s settlement with the Catholic
Church
a. Acknowledged it as the established church
b. Gave back some of the land confiscatd
Church land
c. Restored the tithe
d. Had the government pay clergy salaries
e. Retain the secular revolutionary calendar
11.Which of the following was NOT a principle
upheld by the Napoleanic Code?
a. the safeguarding of all forms of property
b. the afeguarding of the traditional
privileges and perogatives of the nobility
c. the safeguarding of the traditional
privilieges and perogatives of the family
patriarch
d. equality before the law
e. promotion by merit rather than birth
12.The Napoleanic Code was officially known as the
Civil Code of
a. 1806
b. 1802
c. 1810
d. 1808
e. 1804
13.The Concordat of 1801
a. created a temporary peace between France
and Russia
b. made Napolean “ consul for life”
c. made Napolean Emporer of France
d. reconciled France with the Roman Church
e. forbade the areas of Europe controlled by
Napolen trading with great Britain
14.The agreement signed by Napolean and the Pope
which stipulated that French clergy would be chosen
and paid by the French state but consecrated by the
Pope is known as the
a. Concordat of 1801
b. Napoleanic Code
c. Consulate
d. Treaty of Tilsit
e. Continental System
15.The Concordat of 1801
a. Elevated the symbolic importance of the
Catholic church in France
b. Declared Catholicism the religion of most
French citizens
c. Effectively prohibited Catholic worship in
France
d. Pleased Napolean’s anticlerical supporters
e. Granted the Catholic church greater power
independent of the French state
16.How did the Napoleonic Code reflect
Enlightenment principles?
a. It guaranteed the equality of all
citizens before the law.
b. It guaranteed women equal rights.
c. It valued individuals above all else.
d. It valued the security of the state over
individual liberty
17. The Napoleanic Code abolished
a. paternal control
b. the right of the eldest son to be the primary heir
to his parents’ property
c. the requirement that married women have their
husbands’ consent to dispose of their property
d. restrictions on occupation based on gender
e. the ban against workers organizations
18. Napolean has been characterized as a “son of the
Enlightenment” because during his reign
a. He supported freedom of speech and the
press
b. His civil code granted legal equality to the
middle class
c. He conquered most of the autocratic
regimes in Europe
d. The Napoleanic code established women’s
rights
e. He was a liberal emperor
19. Which of the following was NOT a principle
upheld by the Napoleanic Code?
a. The safeguarding of all forms of property
b. The safeguarding of the traditional
privileges and prerogatives of the nobility
c. The safeguarding of the traditional
privileges and prerogative of the family
patriarch
d. Equality before the law
e. Promotion by merit rather than birth
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20. The Concordat of 1801
a. Created a temporary peace between France
and Russia
b. Made Napolean “consul for life”
c. Made Napolean Emperor of France
d. Reconciled France with the Roman Church
e. Forbade the areas of Europe controlled by
Napolean from trading with great Britiain
21.Which of the following statements accurately describes
the Napoleonic Code?
a. It was Europe's first written law code
b. It prepared the way for the Bourbon Restoration
c. It institutionalized the corvee
d. It protected private property and the authority
of husbands within the family
e. It determined the shape of European
governments until the First World War
22.Napolean’s purpose in instituting the Continental
System was to
a. Defeat England through economic war
b. Consolidate the separate states of Germany
c. Unify Italy
d. Create a united Europe under the
leadership of France
e. Punish Russia for his ill-fated invasion
23.In October 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar,
a. The British navy defeated the combined
French and Spanish fleets
b. Napolean’s Grand Army was destroyed
c. The French army won a victory that gave
Napolean effective control of all of
Germany
d. Napolean’s forces won a victory that forced
Russian into a treaty with France
e. Napolean was captured and sent to the
Island of Elba
24.The larger significance of the British victory at the
Battle of Trafalgar was that
a. The British navy defeated the combined
French and Spanish fleets
b. Napolean’s Grand army was destroyed
c. Napolean had to call a halt to the
Continental System
d. Napolean was captured and sent to the
island of Elba
It ended the threat of a French conquest of Britain
25. The Battle of Trafalafar
a. led to a short lived peace
b. took Prussia out of the war
c. established England’s control of Spain
d. end the possibility of France invading England
e. took Russia out of the war
26. By 1812, what country has withdrawn from the
Continental System
a. Russia
b. Prussia
c. Italy
d. Spain
e. Denmark
27.Napoleon’s primary aim in establishing the
Continental System was to
(A)unite the German states
(B)end the military threat from Russia
(C)provide new governments in French-occupied
territories
(D)destroy Great Britain’s economy
(E)create a tariff-free zone throughout Europe
28.The continental system represented Napolean’s
attempt to
a. Lead the continent in a potential struggle
with the United States
b. Close off the continent to British trade
c. Create a continent wide parliament
d. Issue a new code of law
e. Draft soldiers throughout Europe into a
grand army
29. Napolean’s Contintental System was aimed at
a. Achieving political and economic unity of
his empire
b. Destroying the British economy by
boycotting British goods
c. Developing agriculture to be self sufficient
d. Spreading the blessings of the French
Revolution, such as the metric system
e. Uniting Europe behind the Catholic Church
30. Napolean’s “Continental System” aimed at
a. Establishing peace with Britain
b. Establishing members of his family as rulers
of European countries defeated by France
c. Cutting off all British trade with the
Continent
d. Defeating other European powers and
incorporating them into the French empire
e. Free trade with the French empire
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31. Bonaparte’s 1805 military victory at Austerlitz
resulted in
a. The defeat of the Holy Roman Empire
b. His being recognized as the king of Italy
c. A battle with Britain
d. Few concession from Austria
e. A secret alliance between Napolean and
Willian Pitt the Younger
33.Why is it significant that Napolean crowned
himself as emperor of the First French Empire in
1804?
a. He was the first of his line
b. It was a symbolic gesture to show his
independence
c. Because of the Concordat of 1801, the
clergy refused to participate
d. Because the Senate had named him
“Emperor of the French” rather than
“Emperor of France”
e. It had no significance
34. The declaration of Napolean as Emperor of
France was ratified by
a. a plebiscite
b. no one
c. a patricianary
d. a consul of the republic
e. the Second Coalition
35. Which of the following policies of Napolean was
most often used to cast him in a negative role by his
opponents?
a. The Concordat of 1801
b. His use of nepotism in government
c. His use of the merit system in government
d. His Code Napolean
e. His restructuring of the educational system
36. Napolean divorced his wife , Empress Josephine,
because
a. She was unfaithful to him
b. His being recognized as the king of Italy
c. She was a political handicap to his rule
d. She was unable to bear a child
e. He believed she was plotting against his life
37. Napolean helped make the French Revolution an
international movement in the areas he conquered
a. By imposing a universal currency based on
the French franc
b. By the brutal suppression of guerilla
resistance
c. By abolishing feudalism and manorialism
d. By encouraging French as the universal
language
e. By placing his relatives on the thrones
38. The impact of Napolean’s Grand Empire included
all of the following EXCEPT
a. The abolition of serfdom
b. Legal and administrative reform
c. The popular belief in Napolean as the
enlightened liberator
d. Resentment against foreign domination
e. Massive conversions to Catholicism all over
Europe
39. Which of the following ideologies has its roots in
the French Revolution and the conquests of
Napolean?
a. Marxian socialism
b. Laissez-faire economic liberalism
c. Political conservatism
d. Nationalism
e. Utopiam socialism
40. Napolean’s forces and reforms were generally
welcomed in both the German states and northern
Italy, primarily because
a. They brought more unity and a better
organized government than those regions
previously had
b. The French imposed the metric system of
standard weights and measures
c. New native people had greater chances to
rise politically
d. The Church lost some of its influence and
control
e. The French brought more modern
agricultural practices, which meant better
and more plentiful food
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41. Which of the following actions by Napoleon
aided the cause of German unification?
(A) The elimination of many small states and the
political reorganization of territory
(B) The incorporation of Schleswig-Holstein into
Prussia
(C) The expulsion of the Turks occupying the
European territory where German was spoken
(D) The reversal of the long-standing policy of French
support for the Holy Roman Empire
(E) The requirement that all people in conquered
lands speak a common language, French
42. Architecture produced in the Napoleonic Empire
was influenced most by
(A) ancient Egyptian pyramids
(B) classical models
(C) Romanesque churches
(D) Islamic structures
(E) Gothic churches
43.
The policy of extending the French
Revolution beyond France's borders was most
closely associated with the
a. Estates General
b. Royalists
c. Thermidoreans
d. Girondin party
e. Convention
44. A major revolutionary ideal spread throughout
Europe by the French armies during the
Revolutionary and the Napoleonic periods was that
(A) careers should be open to talented
individuals from all classes
(B) workers have the right to form labor unions
and bargain collectively
(C) every individual is entitled to a free, public
education
(D) private property should be abolished
(E) the aged and the infirm should have the
right to public support
45. Under the Napoleonic system, peasants in
territories conquered by French armies were
generally given
(A) the right to vote for representatives to serve in
newly created parliaments
(B) control over the appointment of village priests
(C) freedom from manorial obligations
(D) free lessons in the French language
(E) sets of laws designed specifically to fit local
conditions
46. Which of the following European countries
experienced the greatest degree of political
instability in the nineteenth century?
(A) Austria
(B) France
(C) The Netherlands
(D) Prussia
(E) Russia
.
47.The policy of extending the French Revolution
beyond France's borders was most closely associated
with the
a. Estates General
b. Royalists
c. Thermidoreans
d. Girondin party
e. Convention
48.The armies of revolutionary France enjoyed
which of the following advantages over the armies of
the major European monarch ?
(A)
A better supply system
(B)
Superior training and more practice in drills
(C)
Technologically advanced weaponry
(D)
Older and more experienced soldiers
(E)
Greater patriotism and morale
49. A major revolutionary ideal spread throughout
Europe by the French armies during the
Revolutionary and the Napoleonic periods was that
(A) careers should be open to talented
individuals from all classes
(B) workers have the right to form labor
unions and bargain collectively
(C) every individual is entitled to a free, public
education
(D) private property should be abolished
(E) the aged and the infirm should have the
right to public support
50. The decline and fall of Napolean is best explained
by
a. The inefficiency of the French army
b. His tactical blunders
c. Internal resistance by royalists and
republicans
d. The British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar
e. A combination of flawed policies and
growing resistance to French rule
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51. Which of the following precipitated the fall of the
Second Republic in France?
a. France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War
b. A coup and two plebicites
c. The French Revolution
d. The Crimiean War
e. The unification of Italy
52.Which of the following best explains the eventual
defeat of Napolean and his forces
a. The inefficiency of the French army
b. Flawed policies that exacerabated
resisitance to French rule
c. Internal resistance by royalist and
republicans
d. The British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar
e. Tactical blunders
53. Who was the man whose ideas and aims
dominated the Congress of Vienna and after whom
the age of reaction is named
a. Castlereigh
b. Metternich
c. Alexander I
d. Talleyrand
e. Hardenburg
54.The Congress of Vienna attempted to
permanently lessen the possibility of French
expansion by
a. Leaving foreign troops on French soil
b. Granting Prussia land on the left bank of
the Rhine
c. Demanding that the French dismantle their
military
d. Providing the Russians with a corridor
through German territory to reach the
French border
e. Annexing large tracts of French territory
55.Metternich, the Austrian chancellor who
dominated the Congress of Vienna, extremely fearful
of
a. Nationalism
b. The return of the Bourbons
c. The impact of industrialization
d. Particularism among Italian states
e. Russian intentions in Europe
56.The aims of the great powers represented at the
Congress of Vienna were
a. To so weaken France that it could never
threaten Europe again
b. To secure the democratic reforms wom by
the French Revolution
c. To rstore the traditional order and to create
a new balance of power
d. To create an alliance system
e. To provide independent nation states for
Italy, Hungary, and Czechoslavakia
57.Which of the following was an aim of the great
powers represented at the Congress of Vienna in
1814?
a. To punish France
b. To divide and weaken Germany
c. To restore the traditional order and to
create a new balance of power
d. To spread liberal reform more widely in
Europe
e. To provide independent nation states for
Italy, Hungary, and Czechoslavakia
58. The Congress of Vienna hoped to restore the
European balance of power after the Wars of the
Revolution and the Napoleanic Wars by
a. Surrounding France with strong states
b. Unifying all of Germany
c. Reestablishing the Holy Roman Empire
d. Unifying Italy
e. Giving Russia the left bank of the Rhine
60. All of the following occurred as a result of the
settlements reached at the Congress of
Vienna
(1814-1815) EXCEPT:
(A) A balance of power was reestablished.
(B) Belgium was united with the Netherlands under
the House of Orange.
(C) The neutrality of Switzerland was recognized.
(D) Italy was unified under Sardinian leadership.
(E) A personal union between Sweden and Norway
was created.
61. At the Congress of Vienna, a principle that guided the
deliberations of the diplomats was:
(A) balance of power
(B) utilitarianism
(C) imperialism
(D) self-determination
(E) liberalism
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62. Which of the following early nineteenth-century
political figures was most closely identified with the
concept of “the concert of Europe”?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
Castlereagh
Napoleon I
Talleyrand
Alexander I
Metternich
63. Which of the following spared Europe a general
multinational war during the second half of the
nineteenth century?
(A) The functioning of an effective balance of power
(B) Europe’s preoccupation with industrial development
(C) The strength of the German navy
(D) Fear of Ottoman expansion into the rest of
Europe
(E) A policy of free and unrestricted trade
64.Rousseau’s Emile influenced the way people
viewed childhood
a) By emphasizing the need to teach
emotional restraint
b) By suggesting it as the time in which to
instill the benefits of a rational education
c) By emphasizing that children were not
merely small adults
d) By positioning it as the critical focus for the
family dynamic
e) By framing it as a mirror to adult behaviors
65.19th century Romanticism can be understood as a
reaction against
a. Conservatism
b. Changes wrought by the Enlightenment
and industrialization
c. Nationalism
d. Social Darwinism
e. Scientific socialism
66. Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther is an
example of
a. The anarchist movement
b. Early liberalism
c. Socialism
d. Nationalism
e. The Sturm and Drang movement
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man
So be it when I shall grow old
Or let me die!
67.The 19th century verse above is indicative of
a. Neoplatonism
b. The Romantic movement
c. The impressionist movement
d. Conservatism
e. The Enlightenment
68.All of the following is true of romantic literature
EXCEPT
a. It came after neoclassicism and spanned
the 19th century
b. It looked to the Middle Ages for inspiration
c. Its poetry glorified nature
d. Some novels contained elements of the
supernatural
e. It featured the lives of the poor and outcast
69. Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust was a piece of
romantic literature in that it
a. Was a heroic adventure story
b. Condemned the evils of the Industrial
Revolution
c. Drew on a medieval legend involving a
deal with Satan
d. Was based on a classical story from Greek
mythology
e. Glorified the beauties of the natural world
70.Hegel was a German philosopher who
a. Said that a give state of affairs, thesis,
would produce and opposite state, the
antithesis
b. Developed the idea of volkgeist, or spirit of
the people
c. Said that culture had unique characteristics
d. Had no influence on future thinking or
theories
e. Glorified all things German as superior to
other cultures
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71.The German fairy tales published in the 19th
century by the brothers Grimm were something of a
by-product because
a. They never intended the stories for
publication
b. They were linguist who traveled
throughout the German states, studying
dialects
c. The stories were taken from a work of
philosophy on the german volkgeist
d. They were really scholarly historians
e. They were really recorded by one of
Napolean’s occupation soldiers
72.What late 18th century European artistic
movement arose as a reaction against
Classicism’s emphasis on reason?
A. Imperialism.
B. Realism.
C. Romanticism.
D. Surrealism.
73.Romantics placed a premium of importance on
a. The intellect
b. The body
c. The afterlife
d. The imagination
e. Marital life
74.Which of the following religions developed in
Europe during the Romantic ear?
a. Deism
b. Unitarianism
c. Presbyterianism
d. Methodism
e. Mormonism
75.The famous German Romantic figure who
authored Faust was
a. Friedrich Schlegel
b. Immanuel Kant
c. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
d. Friedrich Schiller
e. Johan Gottfried Herder
76..Which of the following was a distinctive feature
of Romanticism?
a. A belief that love could conquer all political
differences
b. A focus on religious values and principles
c. The glorification of individuality
d. The cult of the courtier and worship of the
lady
e. An abrupt end to nationalism
77.Which of the following Romantic figures is
renowned for his philosophical theory of the
evolutionary development of ideas
a. Hegel
b. Kant
c. Rousseau
d. Herder
e. Goethe
78.Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Emile or on Education
(1762) promoted
a. The idea of public funding of elementary
education
b. The idea that university education is
essential to intellectual development
c. The idea of giving children maximum
freedom in their development
d. The idea that rearing children requires strict
discipline and inculcation of morality
e. The ideas of sending children away from
home for formal schooling
79. All of the following are important British literary
romantics EXCEPT
William Wordsworth
George Sand
Walter Scott
Percy Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
80. Which is the best characterization of the
romantic movement
It emphasized order and reason
It stressed individualism, emotionality, and
imagination
It viewed nature as a force to resist
It rejected the study of history
It reflected the ideals of the Enlightenment
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81.Which literary movement, stressing the influence
of heredity and environment on human behavior,
replaced romanticism in the last decades of the
1800s?
Humanism
Rationalism
Relativism
Utopianism
Realism
82.The German philosopher J.G. Fichte expanded on
the idea of volkgeist by saying that
It applied other nationalities as well as to Germans
The common people possessed truer qualities that
the nobility
The German volkgeist was superior to that of other
cultures
The Germans had never been able to express their
unique characteristics
German unification was necessary
Caring for the poor, the sick, and prisoners
Outdoor, evangelical services
All of the above
"These writers extolled, often in an exaggerated
form, the expression of human emotion and the
search for realization of one's own identity."
88. The writers described above were associated
with which of the following?
a. The Renaissance
b. Realism
c. Classical liberalism
d. Utilitarianism
e. Romanticism
83. Rousseau can be considered an early Romantic
thinker primarily because he
Saw the world as a machine
Admired the peasant and, even more, the
uncivilized
Advocated reason over emotion
Directly encouraged revolutionary thought
Had faith in an absolute monarch
84. The German Romantic philosophers and the
populists of 19th century Russia were similar in their
respect for the
Nobility
Middle class
Clergy
Common people
Landed aristocracy
86. Which of the following is an example of the
Sturm and Drang movement
Michelangelo’s David
Bismark’s Kulturkampf
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Guernica
The Sorrows of Young Werther
87. The English clergyman John Wesley was part of a
movement called the “Great Awakening,” which
emphasized
Personal, emotional religious experience
Public confession of sins
90. Caspar David Friedrich's painting The Wanderer
Above the Mists shown above does which of the
following?
(A) Foreshadows the calamities of twentieth-century
warfare.
(B) Portrays intellectual detachment in an era of
revolutions.
(C) Expresses loneliness characteristic of Neoclassical
style.
(D) Pays tribute to a famous explorer.
(E) Typifies Romantic contemplation of nature
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91. Which of the following is true of the Romantic
movement in early nineteenth-century
Europe?
It opposed emotional exuberance and excess
It shunned the study and writing of history
It was, in part, a reaction to the classicism of an
earlier period
Among the arts, its influence was felt almost
exclusively in music
It emphasized adherence to universally accepted
standards in the arts
92.
Which of the following statements best
describes the writers of the Romantic school?
(A)
They stressed emotion rather than reason.
(B)
They continued the traditions of the
Enlightenment.
(C)
They were advocates of increased political
rights for women.
(D)
They modeled their work on the classics of
Greece and Rome.
(E)
They based their writing on scientific and
mathematical models.
93.
The Romantic movement in lateeighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Europe
was characterized by
(A)
reaction against the principles of the
Enlightenment
(B)
contempt for organized religion
(C)
an interest in science and technology
(D)
a view of the natural world as a “machine”
(E)
important discoveries about planetary
motion
94. Which of the following is true of the Romantic
movement in early nineteenth-century
Europe?
(A)
It opposed emotional exuberance and
excess
(B)
It shunned the study and writing of history
(C)
It was, in part, a reaction to the classicism
of an earlier period
(D)
Among the arts, its influence was felt
almost exclusively in music
(E)
It emphasized adherence to universally
accepted standards in the arts
97. Romantics were drawn to the art, literature, and
architecture of
a. ancient Greece
b. ancient Rome
c. ancient Judea
d. the Middle Ages
e. the New World
98. Jean Jacques Rousseau laid out how to live a
good life without being adversely influenced by
society in
a. The Social Contract
b. Constitutional Project for Corcisca
c. Letters Written from the Mountain
d. the Spirit of the Law
e. Emile
99. Immanuel Kant agrued that human perception is
as much a production of the mind’s activity as of
a. the influence of a free society
b. sensory perception
c. divinely inspired ideals
d. human morality
e. the existence of God
100. In the 18th century, what writer used the terms
Romantic and Gothic interchangeably
a. Johann Gottfried Goethe
b. August Willhelm von Schlegel
c. Madame de Staal
d. Thomas Warton
e. Immanuel Kant
101. Romantic artists grew upon this era for
inspiration
a. the ancient world
b. the Renaissance
c. their vision of the future
d. the Enlightenment
e. the Middle Ages
102. The most important German philosopher of the
Romantic era was
a. Hegel
b. Goethe
c. Herder
d. Blake
e. Fichte
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