Question 1

Please define the following key terms.
-Denis Diderot

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Denis Diderot was a prominent French phi

Question 2

Please define the following key terms.
-Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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The item "Essay Concerning Human Underst

Question 3

According to Montesquieu, there were three basic types of governments: republican, monarchical, and

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A) imperial. 
B) socialist. 
C) despotic. 
D) democratic. 
E) oligarchical. 
A) imperial. 
B) socialist. 
C) despotic. 
D) democratic. 
E) oligarchical.

Question 4

Please define the following key terms.
-Enlightenment

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The answer of Please define the following key terms.
-Enlightenment...

Question 5

What role did the salon hostess play in the dissemination of Enlightenment ideas?

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The salon hostesses played a crucial rol

Question 6

Please define the following key terms.
-Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

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Mary Astell's "A Serious Proposal to the

Question 7

On what grounds did Mary Wollstonecraft challenge conventional eighteenth-century ideas about women's nature and their proper social roles?

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Mary Wollstonecraft challenged conventio

Question 8

What best describes the European legal system by the end of the eighteenth century?

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A) There was a movement away from imprisonment and toward capital punishment. 
B) Corporal and capital punishment were on the decline. 
C) Criminal punishments became crueler as violent crimes increased. 
D) The death penalty was abolished in western Europe. 
E) Virtually all crimes were punished with a fine. 
A) There was a movement away from imprisonment and toward capital punishment. 
B) Corporal and capital punishment were on the decline. 
C) Criminal punishments became crueler as violent crimes increased. 
D) The death penalty was abolished in western Europe. 
E) Virtually all crimes were punished with a fine.

Question 9

Please define the following key terms.
-Sephardic Jews

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Sephardic Jews, also known as Sephardim,

Question 10

Mozart wrote his first opera at age

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A) twelve. 
B) eighteen. 
C) six. 
D) twenty-two. 
E) thirty. 
A) twelve. 
B) eighteen. 
C) six. 
D) twenty-two. 
E) thirty.

Question 11

____ religion and growing secularization were important factors in the emergence of the Enlightenment.

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A) A new devotion to 
B) Skepticism toward 
C) The absolute rejection of 
D) A renewed faith in 
E) The embrace of traditional 
A) A new devotion to 
B) Skepticism toward 
C) The absolute rejection of 
D) A renewed faith in 
E) The embrace of traditional

Question 12

Please define the following key terms.
-Voltaire

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Voltaire was the pen name of François-Ma

Question 13

Please define the following key terms.
-Carnival

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Carnival is a festive season that occurs

Question 14

Please define the following key terms.
-feminism

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Feminism is a social and political movem

Question 15

Which eighteenth-century composer was considered the most innovative and wrote the opera, The Marriage of Figaro?

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A) Bach 
B) Handel 
C) Haydn 
D) Beethoven 
E) Mozart 
A) Bach 
B) Handel 
C) Haydn 
D) Beethoven 
E) Mozart

Question 16

How did Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, define the Enlightenment?

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A) "Man's leaving his self-caused immaturity" 
B) "The end of tyranny" 
C) "A new era of equality for all" 
D) "A false intimation of future woes" 
E) "The proxy for real progress" 
A) "Man's leaving his self-caused immaturity" 
B) "The end of tyranny" 
C) "A new era of equality for all" 
D) "A false intimation of future woes" 
E) "The proxy for real progress"

Question 17

Which scientist-philosopher provided a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the 18th century?

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A) Voltaire 
B) Diderot 
C) Montesquieu 
D) Beccaria 
E) Fontenelle 
A) Voltaire 
B) Diderot 
C) Montesquieu 
D) Beccaria 
E) Fontenelle

Question 18

Please define the following key terms.
-Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a

Question 19

What was the "general will" according to Rousseau?

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A) A meaningless abstraction and impediment to reason 
B) A result derived from the law of supply and demand 
C) A license to do as one pleased 
D) A social consensus to which the individual must bow 
E) A relationship that was identical to Locke's social contract 
A) A meaningless abstraction and impediment to reason 
B) A result derived from the law of supply and demand 
C) A license to do as one pleased 
D) A social consensus to which the individual must bow 
E) A relationship that was identical to Locke's social contract

Question 20

Adam Smith laid the foundations for

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A) utopian idealism. 
B) radical socialism. 
C) romantic nationalism. 
D) political conservatism. 
E) economic liberalism. 
A) utopian idealism. 
B) radical socialism. 
C) romantic nationalism. 
D) political conservatism. 
E) economic liberalism.

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

Please define the following key terms. -Denis Diderot

Please define the following key terms. -Essay Concerning Human Understanding

According to Montesquieu, there were three basic types of governments: republican, monarchical, and

Please define the following key terms. -Enlightenment

What role did the salon hostess play in the dissemination of Enlightenment ideas?

Please define the following key terms. -Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

On what grounds did Mary Wollstonecraft challenge conventional eighteenth-century ideas about women's nature and their proper social roles?

What best describes the European legal system by the end of the eighteenth century?

Please define the following key terms. -Sephardic Jews

Mozart wrote his first opera at age

____ religion and growing secularization were important factors in the emergence of the Enlightenment.

Please define the following key terms. -Voltaire

Please define the following key terms. -Carnival

Please define the following key terms. -feminism

Which eighteenth-century composer was considered the most innovative and wrote the opera, The Marriage of Figaro?

How did Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, define the Enlightenment?

Which scientist-philosopher provided a link between the scientists of the 17th century and the philosophes of the 18th century?

Please define the following key terms. -Vindication of the Rights of Woman

What was the "general will" according to Rousseau?

Adam Smith laid the foundations for

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

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.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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