Exam 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought

________ suggested that the earth is much older than the Bible indicates and implied that God was not involved in the effort required to create the earth.

The Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was led by ________.

Auguste Comte's works were influential because they ________.

The man generally accepted as father of popular science fiction was ________.

Max Weber and Ernest Renan approached Islam as a(n)_________.

In A Room of One's Own,Virginia Woolf concluded that ________.

The primary reason churches opposed state-financed schools was that they feared ________.

By midcentury,science had a strong foothold in ________.

Cubist painters such as Georges Braque and ________ saw painting as an autonomous realm of art with no purpose beyond itself.

Why was the nineteenth century such a difficult period for Christian churches? What challenges did they face as Europe made advances in other areas?

The first person to use race to explain history was ________.

The Manet painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère suggests ________.

Many of the books and journals of the late nineteenth century were mediocre because ________.

________,written by H.G.Wells,was about a mad surgeon's inhuman experiments on animals.

Theodor Herzl ________.

In his Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races,Count Arthur de Gobineau ________.

In A Room of One's Own,the "room" of the title symbolized _________.

From midcentury on,writers used science to question ________.

Prominent women psychoanalysts such as Karen Horney and ________ challenged Freud's views on women.

The most important proclamation of Pope Leo XIII was the encyclical ________,which,in part,urged employers to seek just and peaceful relations with workers.