The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 14: A New World of Reason and Reform

True or False Quiz

1
Galileo believed that the universe was written in the language of mathematics.
A)True
B)False
2
Galileo did not renounce his belief in the Copernican system before the Catholic Inquisition.
A)True
B)False
3
Isaac Newton explained the universal law of gravitation in his great 1687 work, Principia.
A)True
B)False
4
The Scientific Revolution was based on the acquisition of knowledge through experimentation and observation of nature.
A)True
B)False
5
Robert Boyle laid the foundations for modern chemistry.
A)True
B)False
6
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used a telescope to observe the path of comets in the 1670s.
A)True
B)False
7
Rene Decartes' 1637 work Discourse on Method presents and defends the idea of deductive reasoning.
A)True
B)False
8
According to Francis Bacon, scientific conclusions could be reached from carefully collected data through deductive reasoning.
A)True
B)False
9
The Scientific Revolution offered women for the first time an equal opportunity to participate in scientific scholarship and societies.
A)True
B)False
10
Scientific inquiry was financed solely by the governments of Europe.
A)True
B)False
11
Although skepticism was an important part of scientific inquiry, religion and spirituality remained important for the great scientists of the age.
A)True
B)False
12
Because of his scientific work, Isaac Newton was lampooned by Enlightenment thinkers at the time of his death in 1727.
A)True
B)False
13
David Hume used the scientific method to prove the veracity of some religious miracles and prophecies.
A)True
B)False
14
In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume expressed the idea that only our own human existence could be known for certain.
A)True
B)False
15
Many Enlightenment intellectuals believed that history was the story of inevitable human progress.
A)True
B)False
16
France was the center of the Enlightenment movement.
A)True
B)False
17
One of Voltaire's major patrons was the French government.
A)True
B)False
18
Denis Diderot edited the Encyclopedia.
A)True
B)False
19
Most nineteenth-century European governments maintained a state religion.
A)True
B)False
20
Montesquieu's work on the separation of powers influenced the framers of the U.S. constitution.
A)True
B)False
21
The philosophes found that the idea of rational laws applied only to government.
A)True
B)False
22
Most Enlightenment thinkers supported equal rights for women.
A)True
B)False
23
Cesare Beccaria's 1764 work, On Crimes and Punishment, advocated that criminal activity, other aspects of modern life, should be subject to reason and natural law.
A)True
B)False
24
Immanuel Kant, an advocate of both the virtues of education and the march of human progress during the Enlightenment, argued that women should be granted the same educational opportunities as men.
A)True
B)False
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