Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Quiz
A) Emile, or On Education B) The Social Contract C) Confessions D) Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
A) Russian Revolution B) Chinese Communist Revolution C) French Revolution D) American Revolution
A) The Aristocracy B) The General Will C) The People D) The Monarch
A) Educational Systems B) Private Property C) Religious Institutions D) Political Parties
A) Majority Rule B) Individual Will C) Popular Will D) General Will
A) Descartes B) Kant C) Voltaire D) Locke
A) John Keats B) Percy Bysshe Shelley C) William Wordsworth D) Lord Byron
A) First Discourse B) Political Discourse C) Social Discourse D) Second Discourse
A) Gender B) Social Class C) Parents' Will D) Nature
A) John James Rousseau B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau C) Jean Jacques Rousseau D) Jacques Rousseau
A) Bern B) Geneva C) Paris D) Turin
A) Protestant minority B) Secular state C) Huguenot republic and the seat of Calvinism D) Catholic majority
A) Teaching B) Law C) Farming D) Watchmaking
A) Almost dying, they had little hope of saving me B) A difficult but successful delivery C) A joyous occasion for the family D) An uneventful birth
A) Elisabeth Rousseau B) Anne Rousseau C) Marie Rousseau D) Suzanne Bernard Rousseau
A) He spoke against the government B) He entered a quarrel with visiting English officers C) He refused to pay taxes D) He was accused of theft
A) Scientific journals B) Historical texts C) Philosophical treatises D) Romances (adventure stories)
A) Homer's Iliad B) Virgil's Aeneid C) Ovid's Metamorphoses D) Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
A) He believed they were unnecessary B) He thought they were poorly organized C) He viewed them as oppressive D) He saw them as the embodiment of popular spirit in opposition to rulers' armies
A) 18 B) 17 C) 13 D) 15
A) A Roman Catholic priest B) A Protestant minister C) A fellow student D) His uncle
A) Influence from his father B) Pressure from peers C) Desire for social status D) Reaction to Calvinism's insistence on total depravity of man
A) He moved to England B) He gave up his Genevan citizenship C) He became a priest D) He started a business
A) Through inheritance B) As a servant, secretary, and tutor C) By selling paintings D) By farming
A) Voltaire B) Montesquieu C) Stéphanie Louise de Bourbon-Conti D) Diderot
A) 'Amie' B) 'Maîtresse' C) 'Maman' D) 'Madame'
A) Voltaire B) Jean-Baptiste Lully C) Denis Diderot D) A member of the Académie des Sciences
A) Philosophical debates B) Italian music, particularly opera C) Venetian architecture D) French literature
A) Madame de Francueil B) Mme. d'Épinay C) Sophie d'Houdetot D) Thérèse Levasseur
A) Seamstress B) Teacher C) Cook D) Nurse
A) Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse B) Le devin du village (The Village Soothsayer) C) Du Contrat Social D) La serva padrona
A) A title of nobility B) A lifelong pension C) An invitation to the court D) A position as a royal tutor
A) Inequality among men B) Music theory C) Political economy D) Religious belief
A) Émile, or On Education B) Confessions C) Du Contrat Social D) Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse
A) Calvinists B) Italian musicians C) Genevan citizens D) Encyclopédistes
A) Opera libretto B) Epistolary novel C) Autobiography D) Political treatise
A) No record could be found B) His son became wealthy C) His son rejected him D) He discovered his son had become a scholar
A) The Social Contract B) Discourse on Inequality C) Émile D) Confessions
A) Germany B) Italy C) Switzerland D) England
A) A personal visit B) A hundred crowns C) An invitation to his court D) A letter of recommendation
A) Four B) Five C) Three D) Two
A) Spinoza B) Diderot C) Malebranche D) Montesquieu
A) Public celebration B) Private affair C) Religious ceremony D) Faux civil ceremony
A) Illogical B) Ordinary C) Genius D) Logical
A) Mirabeau B) Renou C) Voltaire D) Conti
A) Horace Walpole B) Diderot C) Voltaire D) Grimm
A) Neuchâtel B) Strasbourg C) Paris D) London
A) A military leader B) A playwright C) A philosopher king D) A famous anchorite, or desert father
A) Horace Coignet B) Madame d'Épinay C) The Prince of Conti D) Voltaire
A) Diderot B) Voltaire C) James Boswell D) Hume
A) Pygmalion B) Les Muses galantes C) Le Devin du village D) Daphnis et Chloé
A) Benjamin Constant B) Frédéric Bastiat C) Jean-Baptiste Blanchard D) Voltaire
A) A playful hoax B) An official diplomatic correspondence C) A serious critique of Rousseau D) A literary tribute to Frederick the Great
A) Enlightenment B) New Humanism C) Romanticism D) Realism
A) Hannah Arendt B) Frédéric Bastiat C) Edmund Burke D) Benjamin Constant
A) The Sorbonne B) The Royal Academy of Music C) The Paris Conservatory D) The Académie des Sciences
A) Harmony must have priority over melody. B) Rhythm must have priority over melody. C) Dynamics must have priority over harmony. D) Melody must have priority over harmony.
A) Natural consequences B) Reward systems C) Strict discipline D) Physical punishment
A) Benjamin Constant B) Edmund Burke C) Jacques Barzun D) Frédéric Bastiat
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau B) Denis Diderot C) Horace Walpole D) David Hume
A) Wootton Hall B) Chiswick C) Dover D) Calais
A) Chekhov B) Pushkin C) Dostoevsky D) Tolstoy
A) "Let us remove these stones." B) "This is an outrage!" C) "We must arrest him immediately!" D) "My God, it's a quarry!"
A) Île de St.-Pierre B) Paris C) Môtiers D) Strasbourg
A) Jean-Jacques Hume B) Voltaire C) Marquis Girardin D) King Louis XVI
A) Self-preservation instinct B) Vanity or amour-propre C) Empathy for one's species D) Moral obligations
A) Voltaire B) Herder C) Diderot D) Carlyle
A) Edmund Burke B) Benjamin Constant C) Voltaire D) Jean-Baptiste Blanchard
A) Thomas Jefferson B) Noah Webster C) James Madison D) George Washington
A) Oligarchic government B) Monarchical government C) Republican government D) Theocratic government
A) Vanity or amour-propre B) Empathy for others C) Self-preservation instinct D) Moral obligations
A) Started writing The Social Contract B) Retired to solitude C) Maintained a public silence D) Published his own version immediately
A) Deism B) Protestantism C) Catholicism D) Atheism
A) Symptoms indicating epileptic seizures B) Complete recovery from injuries C) Development of a new philosophical theory D) Immediate return to health
A) Schiller B) Goethe C) Kant D) Herder
A) 29 January 1768 B) 22 May 1767 C) 30 August 1768 D) 21 June 1767
A) King George III B) Frederick the Great C) Napoleon Bonaparte D) Louis XVI
A) Christoph Willibald Gluck B) Ludwig van Beethoven C) Jean-Philippe Rameau D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A) 16 February 1766 B) 31 December 1765 C) 1 December 1765 D) 1 January 1766
A) Because it was economically unstable B) Because it lacked natural resources C) Because it had a strong monarchy D) Because it was too big
A) Hansong Li B) Istvan Hont C) Joseph Schumpeter D) Ryan Hanley
A) Complimentary B) Inspirational C) Indifferent D) A scolding
A) Bourgoin B) Amiens C) Rue Platrière D) Trie
A) Jean-Baptiste Blanchard B) Voltaire C) Edmund Burke D) Benjamin Constant
A) Law B) Medicine C) Theology D) Carpentry
A) Montesquieu B) John Locke C) Samuel von Pufendorf D) Thomas Hobbes
A) A fire broke out in Rousseau's residence. B) Stones were thrown at Rousseau's house, shattering some windows. C) Rousseau moved to Île de St.-Pierre. D) Rousseau was arrested by the local authorities.
A) Great Dane B) Horse C) Wolf D) Cat
A) Clair de Lune by Debussy B) The Four Seasons by Vivaldi C) Willow Song from Othello D) Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
A) 1794 B) 1815 C) 1789 D) 1804
A) The extended family B) The bourgeois nuclear family C) Communal living D) Monastic life
A) The city B) In an urban center C) In a boarding school D) The countryside
A) Mary Wollstonecraft B) Betty Friedan C) Simone de Beauvoir D) Virginia Woolf
A) Boustrophedon notation B) Tablature C) Staff notation D) Cipher notation
A) 1770 B) 1765 C) 1776 D) 1782
A) Aristotle B) Plato C) Maria Montessori D) Socrates
A) Frédéric Bastiat B) Edmund Burke C) Benjamin Constant D) Charles Maurras
A) Social institutions B) Moral significance C) Natural instincts D) Free choice
A) Methodism B) Protestantism C) Catholicism D) Calvinism
A) The Prince of Conti B) Diderot C) Hume D) Voltaire |
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