CSTU 101 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material
terms? - Correct Answers -Scientific Revolution
What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"? - Correct Answers
-da Vinci
What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to? - Correct Answers -Individual Biases
What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to? - Correct Answers -
Ambiguities of Language
During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what? - Correct
Answers -scientific inquiry to philosophy of life.
What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience? - Correct
Answers -Empiricism
European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase? -
Correct Answers -Period of Conflict
The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"? -
Correct Answers -17th Century
The name Galileo is best associated with what period? - Correct Answers -1550-1770
You try three oranges out of a bag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude,
therefore, that the rest of the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned
___________. - Correct Answers -Inductively
Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely
impacted by ____________. - Correct Answers -Enlightenment
According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on
how the institutions of modern western culture have developed? - Correct Answers -
Roussaeu
What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of? - Correct
Answers -Social Perfection
, Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects? - Correct Answers -
Education, Politics, Society
What great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of
human imagination made because we need a moral standard in society, and he is
looked to and idolized by the secular world because he was so hostile to faith? - Correct
Answers -Voltaire
Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that... - Correct
Answers -"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".
What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century? - Correct Answers -"Age of
Reason" and "Neoclassical Period"
T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that tradition is the
foundation of truth. - Correct Answers -False
T/F: The Enlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion. - Correct
Answers -False
Modern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of
who? - Correct Answers -Rousseau
Who is not discussed in the text as an example of a "romantic hero"? - Correct Answers
-Louis XIV
T/F: In many ways, the modern environmental movement can be traced back to the
romantic veneration of nature. - Correct Answers -True
Wordsworth's sonnet, "The World Is Too Much with Us," best illustrates which concept?
- Correct Answers -Nature on the Romantic imagination
T/F: Romanticism in the arts can be described as a triumph of "reason" over "passion." -
Correct Answers -False
What event is most closely related to the Crystal Palace? - Correct Answers -The output
of factories
Realism in nineteenth-century art can be understood as a reaction to what movement? -
Correct Answers -Romanticism
What concept is presented in chapter 23 as an important background to the emphasis
on "realism" and "materialism" in nineteenth-century culture? - Correct Answers -
Industrialization
AND ANSWERS
What Revolution helped bring about a new way of looking at the world in purely material
terms? - Correct Answers -Scientific Revolution
What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"? - Correct Answers
-da Vinci
What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to? - Correct Answers -Individual Biases
What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to? - Correct Answers -
Ambiguities of Language
During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what to what? - Correct
Answers -scientific inquiry to philosophy of life.
What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through experience? - Correct
Answers -Empiricism
European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized by which phrase? -
Correct Answers -Period of Conflict
The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the "century of genius"? -
Correct Answers -17th Century
The name Galileo is best associated with what period? - Correct Answers -1550-1770
You try three oranges out of a bag of ten and all three are sour. You conclude,
therefore, that the rest of the oranges are also sour. You have just reasoned
___________. - Correct Answers -Inductively
Both the European culture and the development of the American Culture were largely
impacted by ____________. - Correct Answers -Enlightenment
According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the greatest influence on
how the institutions of modern western culture have developed? - Correct Answers -
Roussaeu
What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable of? - Correct
Answers -Social Perfection
, Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects? - Correct Answers -
Education, Politics, Society
What great writer, and somewhat of a philosopher, stated that God was a construct of
human imagination made because we need a moral standard in society, and he is
looked to and idolized by the secular world because he was so hostile to faith? - Correct
Answers -Voltaire
Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely that... - Correct
Answers -"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".
What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century? - Correct Answers -"Age of
Reason" and "Neoclassical Period"
T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that tradition is the
foundation of truth. - Correct Answers -False
T/F: The Enlightenment philosophers had a high regard for the truth of religion. - Correct
Answers -False
Modern political liberalism shares its underlying view of man with the philosophy of
who? - Correct Answers -Rousseau
Who is not discussed in the text as an example of a "romantic hero"? - Correct Answers
-Louis XIV
T/F: In many ways, the modern environmental movement can be traced back to the
romantic veneration of nature. - Correct Answers -True
Wordsworth's sonnet, "The World Is Too Much with Us," best illustrates which concept?
- Correct Answers -Nature on the Romantic imagination
T/F: Romanticism in the arts can be described as a triumph of "reason" over "passion." -
Correct Answers -False
What event is most closely related to the Crystal Palace? - Correct Answers -The output
of factories
Realism in nineteenth-century art can be understood as a reaction to what movement? -
Correct Answers -Romanticism
What concept is presented in chapter 23 as an important background to the emphasis
on "realism" and "materialism" in nineteenth-century culture? - Correct Answers -
Industrialization
