Question 1

Rococo artists celebrated majesty, power, and movement.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What were the chief characteristics of popular religion in the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

The chief characteristics of popular rel

Question 3

At what time was Carnival celebrated?

Accepted Answer

A) The weeks leading up to Christmas 
B) Easter 
C) The weeks leading up to Lent 
D) Pentecost 
E) All Saints Day 
A) The weeks leading up to Christmas 
B) Easter 
C) The weeks leading up to Lent 
D) Pentecost 
E) All Saints Day

Question 4

Please define the following key terms.
-Romanticism

Accepted Answer

Romanticism is a cultural and artistic m

Question 5

Whose voyages in the Pacific Ocean were a major inspiration for travel literature in the eighteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A) James Cook 
B) Ferdinand de Lesseps 
C) Zheng He 
D) David Hume 
E) Ferdinand Magellan 
A) James Cook 
B) Ferdinand de Lesseps 
C) Zheng He 
D) David Hume 
E) Ferdinand Magellan

Question 6

Rousseau believed that men and women were fundamentally different.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

What best describes both Catholic and Protestant churches in eighteenth-century Europe?

Accepted Answer

A) They declined in numbers and influence. 
B) They still played a major role in social and spiritual areas. 
C) They were responsible for the dramatic role in literary. 
D) They had not changed much in two centuries. 
E) They were legally separated from any state or government connections. 
A) They declined in numbers and influence. 
B) They still played a major role in social and spiritual areas. 
C) They were responsible for the dramatic role in literary. 
D) They had not changed much in two centuries. 
E) They were legally separated from any state or government connections.

Question 8

Marie-Therese de Geoffrin gained fame as a

Accepted Answer

A) innovative physicist. 
B) musician and singer. 
C) salon hostess. 
D) remarkably effective doctor. 
E) novelist and moralist. 
A) innovative physicist. 
B) musician and singer. 
C) salon hostess. 
D) remarkably effective doctor. 
E) novelist and moralist.

Question 9

Please define the following key terms.
-Rococo

Accepted Answer

Rococo was an artistic and decorative st

Question 10

Who said that individuals "will be forced to be free"?

Accepted Answer

A) Baron Paul d'Holbach 
B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
C) Denis Diderot 
D) Francois Quesnay 
E) Voltaire 
A) Baron Paul d'Holbach 
B) Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
C) Denis Diderot 
D) Francois Quesnay 
E) Voltaire

Question 11

What was the main purpose of the Encyclopedia, according to Diderot?

Accepted Answer

A) To get the uneducated masses to respect authority 
B) To usher in God's kingdom on earth 
C) To dispute the claims of science 
D) To exacerbate the hedonism of his peers 
E) To change the general way of thinking 
A) To get the uneducated masses to respect authority 
B) To usher in God's kingdom on earth 
C) To dispute the claims of science 
D) To exacerbate the hedonism of his peers 
E) To change the general way of thinking

Question 12

Please define the following key terms.
-Franz Joseph Haydn

Accepted Answer

Franz Joseph Haydn was a prominent Austr

Question 13

Please define the following key terms.
-pogroms

Accepted Answer

Pogroms:

Who?
Pogroms were violent riot

Question 14

Which French Rococo painter portrayed the aristocratic life as refined, sensual, and civilized?

Accepted Answer

A) Antoine Watteau 
B) Balthasar Neumann 
C) Madam Geoffrin 
D) Rembrandt 
E) Caspar David Friedrich 
A) Antoine Watteau 
B) Balthasar Neumann 
C) Madam Geoffrin 
D) Rembrandt 
E) Caspar David Friedrich

Question 15

According to Adam Smith, what was a legitimate function of government?

Accepted Answer

A) To promote religion 
B) To protect society from invasion 
C) To plan the national economy 
D) To set wages and prices 
E) To provide all citizens with employment 
A) To promote religion 
B) To protect society from invasion 
C) To plan the national economy 
D) To set wages and prices 
E) To provide all citizens with employment

Question 16

Please define the following key terms.
-philosophes

Accepted Answer

The term "philosophes" refers to a group

Question 17

Please define the following key terms.
-The Social Contract and the general will

Accepted Answer

The Social Contract and the general will

Question 18

Adam Smith believed that government had an important, if limited, role to play in the economy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

With what characteristic was every person born, according to John Locke?

Accepted Answer

A) A passion for evil 
B) Love in their heart 
C) The image of God in their mind's eye 
D) A blank mind 
E) A mixture of their parent's beliefs and values 
A) A passion for evil 
B) Love in their heart 
C) The image of God in their mind's eye 
D) A blank mind 
E) A mixture of their parent's beliefs and values

Question 20

Please define the following key terms.
-Adam Smith

Accepted Answer

Adam Smith (1723–1790) was a Scottish ec

Exam 17: The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

Rococo artists celebrated majesty, power, and movement.

What were the chief characteristics of popular religion in the eighteenth century?

At what time was Carnival celebrated?

Please define the following key terms. -Romanticism

Whose voyages in the Pacific Ocean were a major inspiration for travel literature in the eighteenth century?

Rousseau believed that men and women were fundamentally different.

What best describes both Catholic and Protestant churches in eighteenth-century Europe?

Marie-Therese de Geoffrin gained fame as a

Please define the following key terms. -Rococo

Who said that individuals "will be forced to be free"?

What was the main purpose of the Encyclopedia, according to Diderot?

Please define the following key terms. -Franz Joseph Haydn

Please define the following key terms. -pogroms

Which French Rococo painter portrayed the aristocratic life as refined, sensual, and civilized?

According to Adam Smith, what was a legitimate function of government?

Please define the following key terms. -philosophes

Please define the following key terms. -The Social Contract and the general will

Adam Smith believed that government had an important, if limited, role to play in the economy.

With what characteristic was every person born, according to John Locke?

Please define the following key terms. -Adam Smith

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The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

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Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

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