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