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Discovery wk 24
Question | Answer |
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True or False: George Fox spent years in formal training for the priesthood before he founded the "Society of Friends" in England. | False |
True or False: George Fox and his followers were nicknamed the "Quakers" by a judge in England. | True |
The Society of Friends completely died out in the late 1700s due to persecution and the plague. | False |
To help his father collect taxes, Blaise Pascal invented the first calculator, called the Pascaline. | True |
After a near-death experience with a horse-drawn carriage, Blaise Pascal gave his life to Christ and recorded his conversion on paper. | True |
Blaise Pascal lived and wrote well into his eighties on the topics of mathematics, science, and philosophy. | False |
Louis XIV easily took the throne of France at age 13 because France at that time was one of the smallest countries in Europe. | False |
One of Louis XIV's achievements was the building of the Palace of Versailles, which took 47 years to build and 30,000 laborers. | True |
When Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes in 1658, he set the Huguenots of France free. | False |