Exam 17: Europe during the Enlightenment

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Although the philosophes condemned slavery,they did not argue for its immediate abolition and used many different means of avoiding the issue.One of their numbers,_________,exposed the hypocrisy of this approach by wondering how the Europeans would view slavery if they themselves were being enslaved.

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What was the effect of print culture on the eighteenth century?

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How did the Enlightenment affect the lower classes of Europe?

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In her Vindication of the Rights of Woman,Mary Wollstonecraft argued that:

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Rousseau argued that men and women should receive the same education to enable them to be and create good citizens.

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With the rise in literacy and the book business in the eighteenth century,censorship was:

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One of the most remarkable publications of prerevolutionary France was Denis Diderot's:

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Define Rousseau's argument for legitimate authority.

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Poland suffered repeated losses of its territory to which countries?

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The eighteenth-century Enlightenment produced an elite or high culture that was typified by:

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All of the following describe attitudes or policies of Frederick the Great EXCEPT:

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The general culture that developed from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment was:

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Voltaire's attitude toward injustice,fanaticism,and intolerance was solidified due to a murder case tried in 1762; the defendant in the case was:

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's somewhat conflicting views of female nature illustrate:

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Deism,the "religion" of the Enlightenment,expressed the belief that:

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