CSTU ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
PACKAGE
●● What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"?
Answer: da Vinci
●● What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to?
Answer: Individual Biases
●● What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to?
Answer: Ambiguities of Language
●● During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what
to what?
Answer: scientific inquiry to philosophy of life.
●● What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through
experience?
Answer: Empiricism
,●● European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized
by which phrase?
Answer: Period of Conflict
●● The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the
"century of genius"?
Answer: 17th Century
●● The name Galileo is best associated with what period?
Answer: 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 ___________.
Answer: Inductively
●● Both the European culture and the development of the American
Culture were largely impacted by ____________.
Answer: Enlightenment
●● According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the
greatest influence on how the institutions of modern western culture
have developed?
Answer: Roussaeu
, ●● What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable
of?
Answer: Social Perfection
●● Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Voltaire
●● Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely
that...
Answer: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".
●● What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century?
Answer: "Age of Reason" and "Neoclassical Period"
●● T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that
tradition is the foundation of truth.
Answer: False
VERIFIED ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
PACKAGE
●● What famous artist was not associated with the "Century of Genius"?
Answer: da Vinci
●● What does the phrase "idols of the cave" refer to?
Answer: Individual Biases
●● What does the phrase "idols of the marketplace" refer to?
Answer: Ambiguities of Language
●● During the modern age, the "new science" has developed from what
to what?
Answer: scientific inquiry to philosophy of life.
●● What word refers to how we arrive at knowledge through
experience?
Answer: Empiricism
,●● European culture in the 17th century in Europe is best characterized
by which phrase?
Answer: Period of Conflict
●● The textbook suggest that which century is referred to as the
"century of genius"?
Answer: 17th Century
●● The name Galileo is best associated with what period?
Answer: 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 ___________.
Answer: Inductively
●● Both the European culture and the development of the American
Culture were largely impacted by ____________.
Answer: Enlightenment
●● According to the textbook, which Enlightenment figure had the
greatest influence on how the institutions of modern western culture
have developed?
Answer: Roussaeu
, ●● What did enlightenment philosophers believe mankind was capable
of?
Answer: Social Perfection
●● Rousseau is best known for his theories on which three subjects?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Voltaire
●● Voltaire's philosophy is expressed by his most famous quote, namely
that...
Answer: "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him".
●● What two terms both refer to the culture of the 18th century?
Answer: "Age of Reason" and "Neoclassical Period"
●● T/F: It was commonly believed by the 18th-century philosophers that
tradition is the foundation of truth.
Answer: False
