Question 1

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Horst von Maltitz

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Horst von Maltitz is a South African arc

Question 2

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-John Constable

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John Constable was an influential Britis

Question 3

Compare and contrast liberalism with conservatism.

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Liberalism and conservatism are two poli

Question 4

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-liberalism

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Liberalism is a political and moral phil

Question 5

Explain the connection between romantic thought and the growth of nationalism.

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Romantic thought and the growth of natio

Question 6

Conservatives were generally

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A)  critical of Enlightenment principles that released instincts religion had once controlled. 
B)  suspicious of the theory of natural rights. 
C)  fearful of utopian visions and those who would implement them by force. 
D)  of the view that human wickedness was not caused by a faulty environment, but lay at the core of human nature. 
E)  All of these 
A)  critical of Enlightenment principles that released instincts religion had once controlled. 
B)  suspicious of the theory of natural rights. 
C)  fearful of utopian visions and those who would implement them by force. 
D)  of the view that human wickedness was not caused by a faulty environment, but lay at the core of human nature. 
E)  All of these

Question 7

What is meant by the term conservatism? Why did the conservatives reject the French revolution?

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Conservatism is a political and social p

Question 8

​During the nineteenth century,liberal nationalist helped to create all of the following countries except

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A)  ​Germany. 
B)  ​Poland. 
C)  ​Greece. 
D)  ​Italy. 
E)  ​Turkey. 
A)  ​Germany. 
B)  ​Poland. 
C)  ​Greece. 
D)  ​Italy. 
E)  ​Turkey.

Question 9

How did Hume cast doubt on scientific certainty and the cause and effect theory?

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A)  He claimed that regularities observed in the past will happen in the present and future. 
B)  An objective reality exists which rational creatures can comprehend. 
C)  There is no law at work in nature that guarantees a specific cause will always produce a specific effect. 
D)  The mind has the ability to sense natural laws. 
E)  Science is able to prove a necessary connection that produces scientific laws of cause and effect. 
A)  He claimed that regularities observed in the past will happen in the present and future. 
B)  An objective reality exists which rational creatures can comprehend. 
C)  There is no law at work in nature that guarantees a specific cause will always produce a specific effect. 
D)  The mind has the ability to sense natural laws. 
E)  Science is able to prove a necessary connection that produces scientific laws of cause and effect.

Question 10

​The author of Reflections on the Revolution in France was

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A)  ​Karl Marx. 
B)  ​John Stuart Mill. 
C)  ​Edmund Burke. 
D)  ​G.W.F. Hegel. 
E)  ​Immanuel Kant. 
A)  ​Karl Marx. 
B)  ​John Stuart Mill. 
C)  ​Edmund Burke. 
D)  ​G.W.F. Hegel. 
E)  ​Immanuel Kant.

Question 11

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-tabula rasa

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Tabula rasa is a Latin term that transla

Question 12

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding i

Question 13

Which of the following remarked,"over his own body and mind,the individual is sovereign...."?

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A)  de Maistre 
B)  Burke 
C)  David Hume 
D)  Lemercier 
E)  John Stuart Mill 
A)  de Maistre 
B)  Burke 
C)  David Hume 
D)  Lemercier 
E)  John Stuart Mill

Question 14

Romantics were most interested in

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A)  developing academic rules for the writing of poetry. 
B)  applying laws of nature to the natural setting that was the subject of poetry. 
C)  composing musical fugues. 
D)  expressing primitive feelings. 
E)  critical thinking. 
A)  developing academic rules for the writing of poetry. 
B)  applying laws of nature to the natural setting that was the subject of poetry. 
C)  composing musical fugues. 
D)  expressing primitive feelings. 
E)  critical thinking.

Question 15

The author describes romanticism as a reaction against

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A)  scholastic philosophy. 
B)  nationalism. 
C)  Enlightenment rationalism. 
D)  the cult of the Great Man in history. 
E)  the otherworldly Christian orientation. 
A)  scholastic philosophy. 
B)  nationalism. 
C)  Enlightenment rationalism. 
D)  the cult of the Great Man in history. 
E)  the otherworldly Christian orientation.

Question 16

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
-modern nationalism

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Modern nationalism is a political ideolo

Question 17

Scholars would agree with the statement that

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A)  in Germany, the romantic view of the state contributed to the rise of twentieth century wars. 
B)  Jews long settled in Germany could be considered Germans by nationalists. 
C)  German nationalists rejected history. 
D)  German nationalists denied the concept of a people's inner spirit and instead proclaimed that conscious effort by a talented people resulted in their superiority. 
E)  the romantics were not the earliest apostles of German nationalism. 
A)  in Germany, the romantic view of the state contributed to the rise of twentieth century wars. 
B)  Jews long settled in Germany could be considered Germans by nationalists. 
C)  German nationalists rejected history. 
D)  German nationalists denied the concept of a people's inner spirit and instead proclaimed that conscious effort by a talented people resulted in their superiority. 
E)  the romantics were not the earliest apostles of German nationalism.

Question 18

According to the romantics,abstract and scientific knowledge are insufficient guides to knowledge because of all the following reasons EXCEPT

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A)  too much time is spent on establishing specific principles on nature. 
B)  romantics focus on human diversity and uniqueness. 
C)  romantics feel that individual needs to find and fulfill an inner self. 
D)  a person needs to play his own music and write his own poetry. 
E)  a person can survive by reason alone. 
A)  too much time is spent on establishing specific principles on nature. 
B)  romantics focus on human diversity and uniqueness. 
C)  romantics feel that individual needs to find and fulfill an inner self. 
D)  a person needs to play his own music and write his own poetry. 
E)  a person can survive by reason alone.

Question 19

All of the following helped to shape liberalism except

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A)  the rational outlook of the Greeks. 
B)  the view that human wickedness was not caused by faulty environment. 
C)  the Judeo-Christian respect for the worth and dignity of the individual. 
D)  John Locke's natural rights philosophy. 
E)  Montesquieu's theory of the separation of powers and of checks and balances. 
A)  the rational outlook of the Greeks. 
B)  the view that human wickedness was not caused by faulty environment. 
C)  the Judeo-Christian respect for the worth and dignity of the individual. 
D)  John Locke's natural rights philosophy. 
E)  Montesquieu's theory of the separation of powers and of checks and balances.

Question 20

Political conservatives shared with romantics

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A)  faith in the unique power and value of the individual imagination. 
B)  devotion to the principle of equality before the law. 
C)  anti-Semitism. 
D)  veneration of the past. 
E)  the rejection of the past. 
A)  faith in the unique power and value of the individual imagination. 
B)  devotion to the principle of equality before the law. 
C)  anti-Semitism. 
D)  veneration of the past. 
E)  the rejection of the past.

Exam 13: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Horst von Maltitz

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -John Constable

Compare and contrast liberalism with conservatism.

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -liberalism

Explain the connection between romantic thought and the growth of nationalism.

Conservatives were generally

What is meant by the term conservatism? Why did the conservatives reject the French revolution?

​During the nineteenth century,liberal nationalist helped to create all of the following countries except

How did Hume cast doubt on scientific certainty and the cause and effect theory?

​The author of Reflections on the Revolution in France was

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -tabula rasa

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Which of the following remarked,"over his own body and mind,the individual is sovereign...."?

Romantics were most interested in

The author describes romanticism as a reaction against

Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -modern nationalism

Scholars would agree with the statement that

According to the romantics,abstract and scientific knowledge are insufficient guides to knowledge because of all the following reasons EXCEPT

All of the following helped to shape liberalism except

Political conservatives shared with romantics

The Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

The Hebrews: a New View of God and the Individual

The Greeks: From Myth to Reason

Rome: From City-State to World Empire

Early Christianity: a World Religion

The Rise of Europe: Fusion of Classical,christian,and Germanic Traditions

The Flowering and Dissolution of Medieval Civilization

Transition to the Modern Age: Renaissance and Reformation

Political and Economic Transformation: National States, overseas Expansion, commercial Revolution

Intellectual Transformation: the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment

The Era of the French Revolution: Affirmation of Liberty and Equality

The Industrial Revolution: the Transformation of Society

Surge of Liberalism and Nationalism: Revolution, counterrevolution, and Unification

Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism, positivism, darwinism, and Social Criticism

Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century: Modernization, nationalism, imperialism

Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human Nature, and the Arts

World War I: the West in Despair

An Era of Totalitarianism

World War II: Western Civilization in the Balance

Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989

The Troubled Present

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