Cultural Heritage Exam Ii

Front 1

Early modern science, it has been said, was built on the "shoulders of giants"

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True

Front 2

Copernicus's view of the universe can be described as geocentric

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False

Front 3

The rise of modern science was aided by the invention of the microscope and the telescope

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True

Front 4

Galileo's pioneering work, On the Revolution of the Celestial Bodies, was published in 1643

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False

Front 5

The earliest research on the circulation of the blood was conducted by Andreas Vesalius at hte University of Padua.

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True

Front 6

Important to Newton's theory concerning the physcial laws of nature was the law of gravity.

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True

Front 7

In his work of 1625, The Laws of War and Peace, Grotius avoided any reference to the Natural Law.

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False

Front 8

Marcello Malpighi, an Italian physician, is credited with the discovery of capillaries

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True

Front 9

Galileo ran afoul of Church authoritiesbecause of his validation of the Copernican view othe universe

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True

Front 10

In Hobbes' view, in the absence of an authoritarian stare, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"

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True

Front 11

Pascal's wager concerning his faith in God evidently rested on a bet: "if God exists, you win all; if you lose, you lose nothing"

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True

Front 12

Descartes' most influential work is entitled The Advancement of Learning

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False

Front 13

John Lock is regarded as the father of early liberalism

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True

Front 14

Descartes: "I think therefore I am"

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True

Front 15

Locke's Two Treaties of Government was a reply to the Divine Right theory and to the "absolutism" of Hobbes

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True

Front 16

Locke denied the theory that all knowledge is derived or originates in sense experience

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False

Front 17

Robert Boyle is regarded as the father of modern chemistry

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True

Front 18

The French Bishop, Bossuet, defended the theory of "divine right"

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True

Front 19

The first English colony in North America was started at Plymouth in 1620

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False

Front 20

Reason, Nature, and Science were all invoked by the men of the Enlightenment to give evidence for the correctness of their views

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True

Front 21

The Enlightenment was the most influential in Spain and Portugal.

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False

Front 22

The philosophes mainly composed a group of French writers and publicists at the outset of the Enlightenment

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True

Front 23

The philosophes favored such reforms as women's suffrage

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False

Front 24

Another name for laissez-faire is "free trade"

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True

Front 25

Diesm was an example of the increasing secularization of Western thought in the 18th century

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True

Front 26

During the Baroque Age, France was the first among the continental powers to establish a colony in the New World at Quebec in 1608

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True

Front 27

Like the Physiocrats in their concern about hte state's role in economic affairs, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations blames mercantilism for the economic problems of the time

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True

Front 28

Montesquieu's notable work, The Spirit of the Laws, had focused on the separation of powers principle to prevent governments from becoming tyrannical

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True

Front 29

Rousseau supportred enlightened despotism

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False

Front 30

Mary Wollstonecraft, and English writer, had advanced the idea that women should be educated the same as men

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True

Front 31

William Hogarth, and English painter, is regarded as the originator of the Rococo style in painting

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False

Front 32

The new style of painting after about 1775, which came to replace the Rococo style, was Neoclassicsm

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True

Front 33

In musical composition, the Classical style which came to replace Rococo music was represented by such composers as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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True

Front 34

The new literary form which would develop in the 18th centruy was the "novel"

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True

Front 35

The Industrial Revolution originated in France

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False

Front 36

A major issue dividing England from her American colonies in the eraly 1770's concerned the issue of taxation

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True

Front 37

The French Revolution of 1789 in its earliest phase had established a Republic

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False

Front 38

A key invention in the early phase of the Industrial Revolution was the invention of the steam engine

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True

Front 39

In a broad sense, Romantiscism represented a cultural movement across a wide sprectrum of emotions and imaginative expression, and theat ws also a reaction to the reoclassicism of the previous era.

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True

Front 40

One of the earliest expressions in Germany of the so-called Strum and Drang movement is associated withGoethe's popular The Sorrows of Young Werther

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True

Front 41

Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People was inspired by the French REvolution of 1789

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False

Front 42

Hegel: History evolves through a dialectical process

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True

Front 43

Voltaire: "History does not repeat itself, but man does:

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True

Front 44

Beethoven didcated his Third Symphony, the Eroica, to the memory of a "great man" but it was not Napoleon, even though that was his original intention in composing it

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True

Front 45

Francisco Goya's The Disasters of War appealed to patriotic emotions, and so came to be linked to the Romatnic movement in painting

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True

Front 46

The Concert of Europe broke down only five years after the Vienna Settlement of 1815 when revolution would again break out in France

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False

Front 47

Romanticism, it has been said, also coincided with the rise of the middle class to political dominance

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True

Front 48

MAry Wollstonecraft Shelly, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote Frankenstein, a novel that represented one of the earliest warnings that scientific research divorced from morality might lead to social disaster

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True

Front 49

Romanticism in painting first appeared in England in the work of John constable

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True

Front 50

A consequence of the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century was the rise of he "working class" in England

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True