R3a: Scientific Revolution & Enlightened Thought (by Hannah L) - Abridged Version

Question 1

Voltaire wrote very seldomly, only publishing about one to two works a year.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

What was Adam Smith the founder of?

Accepted Answer

The modern discipline of economics

Question 3

Mary Wollstonecraft: If male thinkers believed it was wrong for a ruler to have arbitrary power over a subject...

Accepted Answer

how come they thought that women should obey men? They contradict.

Question 4

Who was extremely passionate about religious equality and freedom of speech?

Accepted Answer

Voltaire

Question 5

Wollstonecraft believed that women can reason like men, so they have rights to education and economic and political life

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Jean-Jacque Rousseau believed in a balance of emotion and reason but sent his children to orphanages.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

“__ believed that individuals should be free to pursue their own economic self-interest.”

Accepted Answer

Adam Smith

Question 8

Pick one of the TWO ideas of John Locke. (DO NOT guess.) (2 correct options, either one is correct.)

Accepted Answer

A government rules with the people&#x27;s consent allows their natural rights., Children are vulnerable to new influences and learn from experience.

Question 9

Voltaire was the son of a struggling middle-class family from London.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

What ideas did Jean-Jacque Rousseau write about? (2 answers. Pick one. DO NOT GUESS.)

Accepted Answer

Man is enslaved by the government which was indended to protect property., The social contract; personal will should bend to general will.

Question 11

John Locke attended which school during the death of King Charles I?

Accepted Answer

Westminster School

Question 12

Which work did Adam Smith write?

Accepted Answer

The Wealth of Nations

Question 13

Which quote is Diderot&#x27;s?

Accepted Answer

“[Christianity is] the most absurd and the most atrocious in its dogma.”

Question 14

London, England was the center of the Enlightenment.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Who pioneered the rules of scientific reasoning and the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

Question 16

What field did Maria Winkelmann work in?

Accepted Answer

Astronomy

Question 17

Which work did Montesquieu write?

Accepted Answer

The Spirit of the Laws

Question 18

What did patrons of coffee houses do?

Accepted Answer

Drink coffee, read newspapers, smoke, and play chess

Question 19

Which TWO works did John Locke write? (NO GUESSING.)

Accepted Answer

Thoughts Concerning Education, A Letter Concerning Toleration

Question 20

Who put forth the idea that “the world and everything in it worked like a giant clock or machine”?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

Question 21

Jean-Jacque Rousseau wrote the Discourse on the Origins of the Inequality of Mankind.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

What was the name of Émile’s wife in Émile by Rousseau?

Accepted Answer

Sophie

Question 23

Montesquieu&#x27;s idea of separation of powers made it into the Declaration of Independence.

Accepted Answer

False

R3a: Scientific Revolution & Enlightened Thought (by Hannah L) - Abridged Version

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