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Which statement best reflects the
rationalist thinking of a 17th century mathematician?: |
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Political power comes from God. |
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Man is born a tabula rasa. |
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The ends justify the means. |
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I think, therefore I am. |
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Man is innately selfish. |
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Which of the following terms is
paired with the correct period?: |
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Enlightenment -- laissez-faire. |
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Renaissance -- tabula rasa. |
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Romantic Period -- folkgeist. |
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Baroque -- General Will. |
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Northern Rneaissance -- Pantheism. |
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Which scientist is correctly paired
with his thesis or achievement? |
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Francis Bacon -- Inductive reasoning. |
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Rene Descartes -- Law of Kinetics. |
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Nicolaus Copernicus -- Geocentric Theory. |
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Galileo Galilei -- Laws of Gravitation. |
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Issac Newton -- Theory of Relativity. |
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Morals and religion, far from
being inseparable, are completely independent of each other. Am an can be moral without
being religious. An atheist who lives a virtous life is not a creature of wonder,
something outside the natural order, a freak. There is nothing more extraordinary about an
atheist living a virtous life, than there is about a Christian living a wicked one...
This quotation reflects all of the following Enlightenment ideas and attitudes EXCEPT?: |
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skepticism. |
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secularism. |
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Independent Conscience. |
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General Will. |
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rationalism. |
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All of the following describe
Romantic music EXCEPT?: |
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greater emotional character. |
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harsh dischordant sounds. |
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more flowing feel than classical music. |
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softer, gentler sound. |
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evokes a vivid mental image. |
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Which was NOT a characterstic of the
Romantic Period?: |
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Revolutionary spirit. |
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Rationalism. |
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Nature as an inspiration for literature. |
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Glorification of the individual. |
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Revived interest in Gothic architecture. |
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| 7 |
Which of the following quotations
best exemplifies the artist's sentiments of the world depicted above?: |
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Shut your physical eye and look first at your picture
with your spiritual eye, then bring to the light of day what you have seen in the
darkness. -- Friedrich |
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A painting should be a feast to the eye. -- Delacroix |
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From nature doth emotion come, and oods of calmness and equally are
nature's gifts. This is her glory; these two attributes are sisterhorns that constitute
her strength. -- Wordsworth |
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Where Athens, Rome, and Sparta stood, there is moral desert now.
-- Percy Shelley |
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A poem is a species of composition, which is opposed to works of
science... -- Coleridge |
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One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man
Of moral evil and of good
Than all the sages can.
Which thinker / author is most likely responsible for this quote?: |
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Desiderius Eramus. |
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Issac Newton. |
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Hobbes. |
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Rene Descartes. |
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William Wordsworth. |
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