Exam 17: The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought

Radical reformer ________ envisioned a society in which each person could maintain personal freedom while behaving as a loyal member of the larger community.

What was the effect of the Prussian Civil Service Commission?

Which statement best summarizes Rousseau's writings about the role of women in society?

Smith's theory about how human society moves from barbarism to civilization is called his ________ theory.

Frederick the Great's religious toleration can be seen as _________.

How did Voltaire come to admire English culture?

The philosophes generally ________.

His idea that governments should pay for schools shows that Smith ________.

In the first partition,Poland lost one-third of its territory to Russia,________,and Austria.

Monarchs such as Joseph II and Catherine II made "enlightened" reforms part of their drive to ________.

Deism reflected Enlightenment intellectual currents in ___________.

The monarch that most exemplifies enlightened absolutism was ________.

Catherine the Great of Russia ________.

Which of the following philosophes argued against the abuses of imperialism?

The theology embraced by the philosophes was ________,a rational religion without fanaticism and intolerance.

________ published On Crimes and Punishments,in which he applied critical analysis to the problem of making punishments both effective and just.

Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert are best known for their great work: ________.

________,an eighteenth-century philosopher,was known as the "Jewish Socrates."

The philosophes were successful in persuading the emerging public sphere of the importance of rationalism and scientific inquiry.What were the formats through which such ideas were disseminated? What do you believe would have been the most successful means to propagate these ideas? Consider the role of the government and the nature of French society in particular.

Emilie du Châtelet was influential in popularizing the ideas of ________.