1. Which best describes
Voltaire’s personal faith?
(A) There is no God
(B) God is everywhere and controls
everything
(C) God set the world in motion but
then retreated and let it be
(D) God is dead
2. Romanticism changed the
direction of the Enlightenment by
emphasizing
(A) Skepticism over reason
(B) Empirical evidence over reason
(C) Emotion over reason
(D) The unconscious mind over reason
3. Which of these works was
published first?
(A) Newton’s Principia
(B) Copernicus’s On the
Revolution of Heavenly Spheres
(C) Fontenelle’s Plurality of
Worlds
(D) Galileo’s “Starry Messenger”
4. Credited with perfecting the
experimental method—we saw one
example as he rolled wooden balls
down a ramp to measure their
acceleration rate:
(A) Galileo
(B) Newton
(C) Descartes
(D) Bacon
5. Madame du Chatelet is
credited with
A. Hosting a salon where philosophers and
scientists met
B. Her work in astronomy, including the
discovery of several new stars
C. Volunteering her children for smallpox
inoculation
D. Translating Newton’s Principia into French
6. What was the centerpiece of
Newton's work?
(A) The doctrine of uniformity
(B) The law of inertia
(C) The law of universal gravitation
(D) The special theory of relativity
7. With which idea were thinkers like
Pierre Bayle and David Hume
associated?
(A) Romanticism
(B) Skepticism
(C) Mercantilism
(D) Rationalism
8. Which form of
government did Locke
prefer?
(A) Absolute monarchy
(B) Direct democracy
(C) Representative
democracy
(D) Anarchy
9. The Neoclassic style was
differentiated from the Baroque
because
A) it was characterized by
restraint and discipline.
B) it aimed at grandiose effects.
C) it was found mainly in
Protestant countries.
D) it included art forms beyond
painting.
10. Which scientist was so
inspirational that he’s credited
with starting the Enlightenment?
(A) Newton
(B) Galileo
(C) Kepler
(D) Copernicus
11. Montesquieu’s Persian
Letters argues for
(A) Freedom of speech
(B) Separation of powers
(C) Humane treatment of
children
(D) Tolerance for other
cultures
12. Which author and work is
matched incorrectly?
A) Montesquieu, Two Treatises
on Government
B) Locke, On Human
Understanding.
C) d’Holbach, System of Nature
D) Fontenelle, On the Plurality of
Worlds
13. He said “cogito ergo sum.” (“I think,
therefore I am.”) and invented the
deductive method
(A) Francis Bacon
(B) Andreas Vesalius
(C) Thomas Hobbes
(D) Rene Descartes
14. Which writer made the Scientific
Revolution more understandable to
the general public?
(A)Pierre Bayle
(B) Voltaire
(C) John Locke
(D) Bernard Fontenelle
Important terms
15. Aristotle believed in an
earth-centered, or _____,
universe
geocentric
16. Reasoning that begins
with a hypothesis and then
proceeds to collecting
evidence
Deduction
17. An object orbiting the
sun travels in an_____,
according to Kepler
Ellipse
18. Montesquieu’s belief
about the executive,
judicial, legislative
functions of government:
The ______of ______
Separation of Powers
19. Locke’s term: We are
born “blank slates,” or
_____ ____
Tabula rasa
20. Voltaire believed in
God, but only in a God who
created the universe and then let
it run, like a watchmaker. He
was therefore a …
…Deist
21. Rousseau’s term:
Rulers rule according to
the “__________ ____” of the
people
“General Will”
22. “Empiricism” is another
name for ______reasoning,
Bacon’s innovation.
Inductive
23. One who believes that
nothing can ever be known
with 100% certainty
Skeptic
24. Madame Geoffrin’s was
the best-known of these
Enlightenment meetingplaces
Salons
25. Galileo’s observations of
the heavens innovations in
this field of study, a specialty
in the Dutch Republic
Optics
26. "Crush the Infamous Thing," a
slogan that summed up most of the
philosophes' beliefs about formal
religion, was uttered by
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Locke
David Hume
Diderot
Voltaire
Hobbes
27. Deists would have been…
A. Opposed to all religions
B. Fascinated with the religious beliefs of
the Middle Ages
C. Strong supporters of the Church clergy
D. Seeking a combination of a life of faith
and a life of reason
E. Those philosophes who did not believe in
God at all
28. Louis XIV fought many
wars during his reign, except
for…
A. The War of the Spanish
Succession
B. The Thirty Years’ War
C. The War of the League of
Augsburg
D. The War of Devolution
E. The War against the Dutch
29. Who was the politique who
wrote the Edict of Nantes?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Cardinal Richelieu
Louis XIV
Henry VII
Henry IV
Charles II
30. Which statement is not true
regarding the Enlightenment during
the 18th century?
A. The volume of printed material
decreased throughout Europe
B. Coffeehouses became a center for
discussions of writings and ideas
C. The novel emerged helping to spread
the Enlightenment ideas
D. Public opinion became a dominant
force in society and government
31. He was little Louis XIV’s godfather,
but his centralizing ways provoked the
Fronde when the king was a boy.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Richelieu
Mazarin
Colbert
Henry IV
William of Orange
32. What country most benefited
from the Thirty Years' War?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
The Holy Roman Empire
Sweden
Prussia
England
France
33. What did Noam Chomsky theorize
about the way we acquire language?
We may be ‘hard-wired,’ or
essentially programmed, to learn
language from birth.
34. Why would Rousseau have objected
most to the “Genie” Experiment?
No one took responsibility to
commit their love to Genie—she
bounced around like a ping-pong
ball.
“I stand on the shoulders of giants,”
Newton said. Which ones?
•Copernicus
•Brahe
•Kepler
•Galileo
•Mr. Gregory