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Both Christian Humanism and Renaissance thought:
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Upheld rational and classical
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As part of their goals, the Christian humanists wanted to
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Make sure early translations of literature were correct
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The fate of Erasmus was that:
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Alienated both Catholics and Christians
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In his Essays, Montaigne viewed he world and human nature
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With some hope for survival, but his skepticism prevented him from having too much faith
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Shakespeare's reputation is greatest for which literary genre?
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Sonnet of tragedy
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How did the Protestant Reformation affect painting and sculpture?
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The zealous destroyed some works of art
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Reformation leaders drew inspiration from the:
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Struggling early
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The one event that upset Luther and ultimately launched the Protestant Reformation was the:
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Selling of indulgences
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Luther attacked the sale of indulgences in his:
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95 thesis
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In his search for answers to his sense of sin, Luther finally found the solution through the:
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Biblical text
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When protestants and catholics failed to resolve their differences, they?
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turn to warfare
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What type of song was most expressive of late-sixteenth century music?
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Mad regal
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One of the ways in which early modern Europe took shape in the sixteenth century was that Europeans came into closer contact with the rest of the world:
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During the Baroque period Europe was:
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The term baroque probably derives from the Portuguese word barocco meaning:
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Irregular pearl
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Louis XIV's economic policy was called:
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Mercantilism
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Which state briefly became a republic (called the Commonwealth) in the mid-seventeenth century?
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England
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By 1715 the principle that government should rest on the consent of the governed was successfully established in:
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England
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Warfare in the seventeenth century helped establish which diplomatic principle?
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Balance of power
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The Florid Baroque:
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Emotionalism
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The Classical Baroque:
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Absolutist
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The Restrained Baroque was:
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Keeping with Protestant values
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Caravaggio's painting style is characterized by:
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Chiaroscuro
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Ruben's paintings are known for their:
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Ripe sensuality
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The Netherlands in the seventeenth century:
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Domination by the sober values
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The Dutch painter Vermeer specialized in:
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Domestic scenes of middle class life
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The inspiration for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, was the dome of:
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St Peters
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The zenith of Baroque drama was reached:
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Louis the 14th
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Two late Baroque composes who flourished after 1715 were:
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Bach and Handel
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Which of the following was an important legacy of the Baroque age?
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All of the above
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The "crisis of conscience" that affected some European thinkers in the late seventeenth century meant that:
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Traditional to modern values
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Aristotelian physics and astronomy were transmitted to the West through:
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Roman and Islamic culture
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A central characteristic of medieval science was:
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It identified.... unmoved remover
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In the Middle Ages, Aristotle's science began to be undermined by the:
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The application and spread of inductive reasoning
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Which is a correct statement about the Scientific Revolution?
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Early modern science based on medieval thinkers
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Neo-Platonism affected the rise of modern science by emphasizing the power of mathematics:
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The central issue between geocentrism and heliocentrism was:
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A simpler system
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Copernicus's explanation of the universe can be described as a:
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Revival of ancient Greek
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A consequence of Kepler's scientific research was that:
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Sun centered--mathematics
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Galileo's important discoveries were influenced by his:
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Use of the telescope
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Galileo's celestial observations proved that:
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Jupiter has moons
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Besides astronomical research, Galileo also contributed to the:
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Theory of motion
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Regarding Galileo's astronomical writings, the Catholic Church:
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Arrested and tortured
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Newton's outstanding contribution to the Scientific Revolution was the mathematical basis for the:
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Laws of gravity
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Robert Boyle made this contribution to modern chemistry:
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Separated chemistry from other areas
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Marcello Malpighi's contribution to the study of the human body and circulation was:
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Capillaries
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The scientific work if Rene Descartes resulted in the development of:
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Analytical geometry
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Descartes in his search for the truth:
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This thinker questioned the benefits of the Scientific Revolution:
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Pascal
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The seventeenth century witnessed the:
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A major source of the seventeenth-century political thought was the:
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Bishop Bossuet's arguments for the divine right of kings rested on:
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God gave men the right to lead
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Hobbes based on the Leviathan on the assumption that:
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Fear of death, quest for power
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Hobbe's legacy to modern political thought was a theory of:
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Absolutism
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Locke argued that the social contract was:
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Retain their sovereignty
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When Locke argued that the mind at birth is a tabula rasa, he meant that the mind is:
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A blank slate--empty and deviod of ideas
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Both Hobbes and Locke agreed that the basis of government should be a(n):
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Social contract
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One of the major contributions that Fontenelle made was to:
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Explain to an educated public
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Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary can be described as:
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Encyclopedic work arranged in systematic form
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Enlightenment thinking favored:
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Scientific methodology
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The Enlightenment was essentially produced in:
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Paris, France
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Deism was based on:
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Newtons theory of the universe
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A central tenet of Deism is that:
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God set the laws of nature in motion and didn't interrupt
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The Encyclopedic movement was:
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Monument project
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Another name for laissez-faire economics were:
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Free trade
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The originators of laissez-faire economics were:
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physicrats
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French women contributed to the Enlightenment mainly through:
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Presiding over salons
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This state, as a limited monarchy, became the ideal model for many philosophies:
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Great Britain
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The outstanding example of enlightened despotism in the Age of Reason was:
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Austria
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The originator of the Rococo style in painting was:
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Hargoth
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This painter's works were famous for their unabashed sexuality:
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Bousche
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A splendid example of a Rococo interior is the:
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Salon de Princessa
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One of the origins of the Neoclassical style was the archeological excavations at Pompeii:
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Which painting style was established by Jacques-Louis David:
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Neoclassicism
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Neoclassical architecture relied on the ideals of:
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Simplicity, proportion
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Montesquieu's most enduring idea in the Spirit of the Laws is that:
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Separation of powers
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Voltaire's chief aim in Candide was to satirize the:
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Philosophy or optimism
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English Neoclassical writers and their readers shared these values:
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Good taste in moral and religious values
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What new literary form was developed in the Age of Reason:
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Novel
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The music of Couperin is a perfect counterpart to the:
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Wato
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Which of the following was a characteristic of Classical music?
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all of the above
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The period between 1760 and 1830 can be described as a time when:
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Middle class began to win liberties from aristocracies
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The Industrial Revolution began in England because:
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Source of raw materials
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Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations:
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emphasize self interest
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Malthus's "law" of population held that:
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growth of population would lead to destruction
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Ricardo's "iron law of wages" held that wages for workers:
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always hovered around subsistence level
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The economic conclusions reached by Malthus and Ricardo:
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middle class workers deserved what they got
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by 1830 Europe can be described as a continent that:
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divided into two political parties (liberal and conservative)
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One immediate outcome of the American Revolution was that:
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became the most democratic government since Athens
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After the American Revolution, the new nation's leaders realized their democratic goals by:
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written constitution
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One of Napoleon's major domestic reforms was a
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One major change in Europe between 1789 and 1815 was the:
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influence of reform
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France's revolutionary leaders favored Neoclassicism because:
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morally uplifting
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Who introduced the Neoclassical style in architecture to the United States?
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Thomas Jefferson
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The country that could best claim to be the original home of Romanticism was:
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Germany
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The Strum und Drang movement:
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none of the above
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English literary Romanticism was launched by the writings of:
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Wadsworth & ?
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A novel that exemplifies the Romantic reaction against Enlightenment rationalism is:
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Frankenstein
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Hegel's ideas influenced which of the following groups:
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Borrowed concept & dialect
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Which events of the period 1760-1830 left a lasting stamp on the modern world?
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