Question 1

Newton's major contributions occurred in the field of

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A)   astronomy.
B)   education.
C)   Bible studies.
D)   physics.
E)   geometry. D

Question 2

____________________ ____________________ became associated with inductive reasoning and the empirical method.

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Francis Bacon

Question 3

In her famous treatise, Vindication on the Rights of Woman , Mary Wollstonecraft

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A)   urged society to allow women to fulfill their sexual needs, thus becoming one of the early advocates of "free love."
B)   pushed for equal rights for women, becoming, in actuality, the founder of feminism.
C)   spoke out so harshly against the writings of the male philosophes that her work was banned in France.
D)   argued that women were as intelligent as men, and was devastated when it appeared that not even women cared to hear what she had to say.
E)   described women as "slaves," thus alienating the very audience she was trying to reach.

Question 4

The scientific developments of the Enlightenment period had the greatest impact on

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A)   religious scholars.
B)   the highly educated.
C)   city dwellers.
D)   peasants.
E)   explorers.

Question 5

A common denominator among the Enlightenment thinkers was

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A)   the belief in democracy.
B)   an affinity for atheism.
C)   a commitment to reform.
D)   support for empirical research.
E)   their hesitancy in disagreeing with each other.

Question 6

In the realm of education, the most influential philosophe was

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A)   Rousseau.
B)   Voltaire.
C)   Condorcet.
D)   Descartes.
E)   Diderot.

Question 7

Denis Diderot and Jean d'Alembert accomplished the editing of the

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Question 8

Which is the truest statement of philosophe beliefs?

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A)   Sin is the leading cause of human misery.
B)   Government should have a strong executive power.
C)   All humans are equal in social and political rights.
D)   Ignorance is the major cause of inhumanity.
E)   Most people are capable of ruling if taught the way.

Question 9

Interpreting the results of experiments based on observation would describe

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A)   the Socratic method.
B)   the Descartes plan.
C)   deductive reasoning.
D)   the scientific method.
E)   inductive reasoning.

Question 10

How revolutionary was the Scientific Revolution? Define and explain.

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The Scientific Revolution was a truly re...

Question 11

All of the ideals of the philosophes flowed together in the concept of

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A)   happiness.
B)   reform.
C)   reason.
D)   progress.
E)   liberty.

Question 12

After the Thirty Years' War, people's thoughts and studies began to turn again to

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A)   religion.
B)   government.
C)   science.
D)   economic gain.
E)   exploration.

Question 13

How did the Middle Ages and the Renaissance lay the foundations for the new science?

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The Middle Ages and the Renaissance laid...

Question 14

The most significant 18th century economic thinker was

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A)   Locke.
B)   Hume.
C)   Adams.
D)   Rousseau.
E)   Smith.

Question 15

By the end of the 17th century, educated Europeans were generally

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A)   ready to abandon the search for a more intelligible natural science.
B)   considering applying the scientific method to the study of humans.
C)   impelled toward atheism by the conflicts between religion and science.
D)   abandoning Bacon's empiricism for Descartes' inductive reasoning.
E)   returning to religion as the center of their universe.

Question 16

John Locke believed

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A)   that humans can learn from their environment and improve their lives.
B)   in the concept of original sin.
C)   that checks and balances were important in government.
D)   that his destiny was to steer England through the rough waters of the Glorious Revolution.
E)   that governmental reform was more important than scientific discovery.

Question 17

Baruch Spinoza rejected the idea of a personal ____________________, rather seeing God in all ____________________.

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Question 18

Whose work contributed most to removing Aristotle from his revered position as the master physicist?

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A)   Copernicus
B)   Galileo
C)   Newton
D)   Descartes
E)   Brahe

Question 19

Newton's concept of the universe is often described as

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A)   an apparent order that cannot be comprehended by humans.
B)   an incoherent agglomeration of unrelated phenomena.
C)   a mirage of order that exists only in the human mind.
D)   a machine of perfect order and laws.
E)   complete chaos. D

Question 20

Jean Jacques Rousseau criticized ____________________ as a failure.

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