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Ms. Robinson's Test

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Enlightened thinkers favored ?   The application of science to analyze and understand all aspects of humanity.  
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Examples of growing interest in study were evident except ?   Academic centers for the study of quantum physics.  
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In the religious sphere, there was a shift to ?   Use science to explain God's creations in the universe by observing nature - not Biblical explanations.  
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Who provided a link between the scientists and philosophes ?   Bernard de Fontenelle.  
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Immanuel Kant is associated with all except ?   For the quotation, "Man of born free, yet everywhere he is in chains."  
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Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary was work demonstrating ?   New rational principles of textual criticism should be applied to all writing genre, including the Bible.  
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French philosophes were intellectuals who ?   Intended to change the world by advancing reason and rationality.  
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Philosophes saw no benefit to society when the masses were not ?   Adopting Deism as the new, true religion.  
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John Locke's argued that a person's character was shaped by their ?   Environment.  
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Which is NOT associated with John Locke ?   The Social Contract declared that government needed to abide to the,"... general will of the people."  
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Isaac Newton & John Locke provided inspiration for the Enlightenment by ?   Providing reasons and methods that would allow a brace new world to emerge.  
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The Spirit of the Laws explained the need for all the following except ?   Two distinct houses within the legislative branch.  
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Missionary reports brought skepticism about the "truths" of Christianity due to ?   Accounts comparing old and new world cultures.  
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In Voltaire's, Philosophic Letters to the English, he ?   Expressed admiration for the English regarding freedom of the press, religious toleration, and their political structure.  
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Which was NOT a belief of Deists ?   God answered prayers directed to him in song.  
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Which statement applies to Encyclopedia after the price was greatly reduced ?   It had significant influence in the philosophe's battle against religious fanaticism and intolerance.  
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Which philosophe supported the idea of "social sciences" with his book, Treatise on Human Nature ?   David Hume.  
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The best statement about laissez-faire was by Adam Smith, it explained about all being true except ?   One role of government needed to be a watchguard over business' within its nation.  
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Which philosophe expressed the idea that human perfectability was limitless ?   Marquis de Conforcet.  
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The main points argued in d'Holbach's System of Nature were that ?   Men were machines and God was a product of the human mind and therefore unnecessary for leading a moral life.  
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Which of the following works, expressed Rousseau's political ideas on the principle of "general will" ?   The Social Contract.  
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For Rousseau, what was the source of inequality and the chief cause of crimes ?   Private property.  
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Rousseau's novel, Emile, dealt with these key Enlightenment themes ?   Proper child rearing and human education.  
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Which statement did NOT apply to the significance of salons ?   Were open to public for merchants and businessmen of the 3rd Estate to attend.  
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Which group used salons to promote and raise money for the publication of women's writings ?   Middle class women in London, England.  
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The author of The Vindication of Women's Rights was ?   Mary Wollstonecraft.  
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The Rococo style of art fused with Baroque in ?   The architecture of Balthasar Neumann throughout Germany and Bohemia.  
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Choose the correct relationship between the artist and his work .   Antoine Watteau - Pilgrimage to Cythera.  
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European music was well characterized by ?   Haydn and Mozart, who caused a shift in the musical center from Italy to Austria.  
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Johann Sebastian Bach ?   - Was a contemporary of George Fredrick Handel - Produced religious music - Was best known for his cantatas and motets  
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was considered the most innovative musician who accomplished all except ?   Writing The Creation and The Seasons dedicated to commoners.  
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Most secondary scholars in Europe were ?   Elitist and designed to serve the needs of upper class society.  
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The 18th century produced an expansion of the reading public in the form of ?   - Magazines - Daily newspapers - Publishing houses - Libraries  
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Literacy rates among the upper 3rd Estate in France reveal they ?   Improved for males substantially while those for women remained very low.  
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What was the most significant change in writing histories ?   The removal of God as the main factor of change with a new focus on events themselves.  
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Writers used this new form of literacy expression to attack hypocrisies ?   Fictional Novels.  
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In Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the author gave the chief cause for the end of the Romans as ?   Apathy in civic responsibility due to the growth of Christianity.  
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What became the international language in European high culture ?   Latin.  
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It was NOT common practice for judicial courts to use ?   Psychological methods such as hypnosis and meditation on trial witnesses.  
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Changes in the legal system were due to the author of On Crimes and Punishments, who wrote that essay ?   Cesare Beccaria.  
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University graduate physicians held the highest rank with surgeons , which occupation had they previously held ?   Barber.  
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The Carnival of the Mediterranean world was ?   A period of gross excesses in the consumption of alcohol, food, and sexual activity.  
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The Jews of Europe ?   Were the most free to participate in banking and commercial activities in tolerant cities.  
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How did the Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews differ ?   The first were from Eastern Europe and the second had been ousted from Spain in the late 1400s.  
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John Wesley ?   Created and controlled his evangelical Methodist church using revivalist techniques.  
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Religious movement that was a response to the stagnation of Protestantism ?   Pietism.  
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Which was NOT true regarding the religious world for the masses ?   Both urban and rural churches had substantial losses in membership.  
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Which realm can we understand the quote "... progress in arts and sciences did not promote progress in morality, since it took humans out of their natural state." ?   Popular culture due to social gatherings at taverns, cabarets, and festivals.  
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Famous quotes that came out of the era except ?   "The important thing is, not to stop questioning."  
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