multiple choice test 2 Flashcards
For Descartes certain knowledge is something that
a. must be clear and distinct and be beyond doubt.
b. can be doubted.
c. can have exceptions to it.
d. is not attainable.
a
- An important criteria for Hume’s critique of knowledge isa. that the brain is not a blank sheet.
b. reliance on the guidance of God.
c. immediate sense experience.
d. to reject empirical science.
c
- Immanuel Kant said that the origin of rational knowledgea. is in the brain as a blank sheet taking in sensory information.
b. is not connected to sensory information.
c. is in the subjective application of innate categories to sensory information.
d. has nothing to do with decoding sensory information.
c
- Deism is aa. religious system based on faith alone.
b. a belief system that is not connected to science.
c. religious system that states one cannot confirm the existence of God from laws of nature.
d. belief system that says one can find God from observing the laws of nature.
d
- Adam Smith emphasizeda. government interference in the economy.
b. mercantilist economics.
c. a free market system with the invisible hand as manager and not the government.
d. a socialist system where the government owns the means of production.
c
- Antoine Lavoisier stated that combustion was a product of
a. a process of oxidation. b. the release of phlogistin. c. a process of nitrogenation. d. a process of remediation of chemicals
a
- Historians have inferred several basic causes of the American Revolution. Among the following, select the one or ones that is /are accurate.a. the desire to send representatives to the British Parliament.
b. the desire to have start local colonial assemblies.
c. the desire to be separate from the British Empire.
d. 1 and 3 together.
d
- The primary rationale of the American Declaration of Independence isa. based on the thhhinking of John Locke.
b. based on the new testament.
c. based on the thinking of Montesquieu.
d. based on the thinking of Rousseau.
a
- An immediate cause of the French Revolution was the formation of the National Assembly. This happened because the third estate
a. thought the representation in the estates general was fair, but they did not want to meet with the first and second estates.
b. thought the representation in the estates general was unfair, and they wanted to double their numbers.
c. were unable to elect the monarch in France.
d. leaders demanded to have the titles of the first and second estates removed.
b
- A significant effect of the Declaration of Pilnitz in 1791 was
a. that the major European nations immediately declared war on France.
b. that the French revolutionary government immediately signed peace agreements with the major nations of Europe.
c. that the other major nations of Europe would promote representative forms of government.
d. to make the French revolutionaries fearful, and in 1792 they declared war on the signers of the declaration.
d
- Rousseau’s idea of the general will meant
a. that officials would come into power as elected representatives.
b. there would be a collective moral consensus emerge from discussions among all of the inhabitants of a community.
c. the sovereign would rule with an absolute will.
d. God’s will through divine right.
b
- The class interpretation of Georges Levebrve as the major cause of the French Revolution has been challenged by revisionist historians. They say
a. the class differences were much more severe than he stated in his work.
b. there were no class differences whatsoever in France prior to the revolution.
c. the class lines and activities between the first two estates and the third estate were unclear and other motives were more important in the minds of the original revolutionaries.
d. while there were clear class differences and privileges, these differences were not significant as a cause of the revolution.
c
- A key reason why Napolean signed the Concordat of 1801 with Pope Pius VII was
a. that he wanted Church support for his rule, and he wanted the right to be a part of the selection of French bishops.
b. that he wanted Church support so he gave up any right in the selection process of French bishops.
c. that he wanted no state priviledge whatsoever for the Roman Catholic Church in France.
d. that he wanted the bishops in France to be part Roman Catholic and part Protestant.
a
- The major reason for Napolean’s defeat at the Battle of the Nations in October 1813 was
a. the prior loss of the French navy at Trafalgar.
b. the campaign against Italy.
c. the decimation of his army in the Russian campaign.
d. because the British who at first was Napolean’s ally had defected.
c
- A major principle that the delegates operated from at the Congress of Vienna was
a. republicanism for Europe.
b. to remove monarchical rule in Europe.
c. balance of power.
d. the removal of the French from all negotiations.
c
