Question 1

The Berlin Academy of Science denied Maria Winkelmann's application to continue her husband's study because ________.

Accepted Answer

A) she was a woman 
B) her husband had died 
C) her work was considered inferior to the work of other scientists 
D) she had angered the upper level hierarchy of the Academy

Question 2

Which of the following is Tycho Brahe's major contribution to science?

Accepted Answer

A) He created a vast body of astronomical data from which his successors could work. 
B) He did groundbreaking scientific research in which he suggested that Mercury and Venus revolved around the sun. 
C) He proved Copernicus's research incorrect and published his own geocentric findings. 
D) He proved that the moon and other planets revolved around the earth.

Question 3

The most elaborative baroque monument to political absolutism was ________.

Accepted Answer

A) Pope Urban VIII's tabernacle in Rome 
B) Charles I's palace in London 
C) Louis XIV's palace at Versailles 
D) Franz Joseph's palace in Vienna

Question 4

Most Ptolemaic writers assumed the earth was the center of the universe,an outlook known as _______________.

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

The scientist most known for his work on the laws of gravitation was ________.

Accepted Answer

A) Tycho Brahe 
B) Isaac Newton 
C) Francis Bacon 
D) John Locke

Question 6

Who is known as the father of empiricism?

Accepted Answer

A) Isaac Newton 
B) Francis Bacon 
C) Johannes Kepler 
D) Galileo Galilei

Question 7

The woman who brought René Descartes to advise on the new science academy was ________.

Accepted Answer

A) Queen Christina of Sweden 
B) Maria Cunitz 
C) Elisabetha Hevelius 
D) Maria Winkelmann

Question 8

Compare and contrast Blaise Pascal's and Francis Bacon's approaches to the relationship between religion and science.On what would they agree? On what would they disagree?

Accepted Answer

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Question 9

The author of Pensées,published posthumously,was _________.

Accepted Answer

A) Denis Diderot 
B) René de Chateaubriand 
C) René Descartes 
D) Blaise Pascal

Question 10

Newton was a strong supporter of ________.

Accepted Answer

A) empiricism 
B) inspiration 
C) divine guidance 
D) rationalism

Question 11

The method of investigation that relies on evidence,experimentation,and observations derived from sensory experiences to construct scientific theory is the ________ method.

Accepted Answer

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Question 12

According to Francis Bacon,the Bible and nature ________.

Accepted Answer

A) should be explained by scientists 
B) must be compatible since they shared the same author 
C) are directly opposed on countless points and must be reconciled 
D) are inadequately explained by the Roman Catholic Church

Question 13

Pascal's attitude toward reason was that it was ________.

Accepted Answer

A) un-Christian 
B) of little use 
C) insufficient for grasping religious concepts 
D) superior to faith in understanding the world

Question 14

Bernini was hired by Urban VIII to decorate ________.

Accepted Answer

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Question 15

Baroque art first emerged in ________.

Accepted Answer

A) Paris,France 
B) papal Rome 
C) Florence,Italy 
D) Buckingham Palace,London,England

Question 16

Jonathan Swift's satire of the new sciences was ________.

Accepted Answer

A) Leviathan 
B) Gulliver's Travels 
C) First Treatise of Government 
D) Letter Concerning Toleration

Question 17

The experiences of the English Civil War led Thomas Hobbes to summarize his views about strong central government in his book ________.

Accepted Answer

A) Second Treatise of Government 
B) Leviathan 
C) Discourse on Method 
D) Gulliver's Travels

Question 18

The assumption that the earth moved about the sun in a circle is known as the ________________ model.

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

How were the witch hunts a sign of their times? What role did religion play in the witch hunts? What do you think caused the witch hunts to come to a close?

Accepted Answer

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Question 20

The scientific fact that the orbits of the planets are elliptical was discovered by ________.

Accepted Answer

A) Newton 
B) Galileo 
C) Brahe 
D) Kepler

Exam 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries