HIEU 425 Quiz with 100% Correct |Verified Solutions
2024/25 Update
The weakness of the French crown most responsible for precipitating the Revolution was its
inability to balance its income and expenses. - ✔✔True
The philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau championed the right of the individual to oppose
majority opinion. - ✔✔False
"Absolute monarchy" meant that the king's powers inlcuded: - ✔✔
The philosophes were thinkers who criticized the political, religious, and social institutions of
Ancien Régime France. - ✔✔True
In the selection, Rousseau, The Social Contract, what does he argue about the "general will?" -
✔✔
France's social structure became more unsettled in the eighteenth-century because the
bourgeoisie were attaining political power as well as wealth. - ✔✔False
The French peasantry: - ✔✔supplemented their income through cottage industries, which
brought them into contact with bourgeois merchants.
In The Social Contract, what did Jean-Jacques Rousseau argue about liberty? - ✔✔Liberty is
based on the "general will," the common interest of the citizens.
In France, those who prospered in trade could obtain noble status through the purchase of
bureaucratic offices. - ✔✔True
2024/25 Update
The weakness of the French crown most responsible for precipitating the Revolution was its
inability to balance its income and expenses. - ✔✔True
The philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau championed the right of the individual to oppose
majority opinion. - ✔✔False
"Absolute monarchy" meant that the king's powers inlcuded: - ✔✔
The philosophes were thinkers who criticized the political, religious, and social institutions of
Ancien Régime France. - ✔✔True
In the selection, Rousseau, The Social Contract, what does he argue about the "general will?" -
✔✔
France's social structure became more unsettled in the eighteenth-century because the
bourgeoisie were attaining political power as well as wealth. - ✔✔False
The French peasantry: - ✔✔supplemented their income through cottage industries, which
brought them into contact with bourgeois merchants.
In The Social Contract, what did Jean-Jacques Rousseau argue about liberty? - ✔✔Liberty is
based on the "general will," the common interest of the citizens.
In France, those who prospered in trade could obtain noble status through the purchase of
bureaucratic offices. - ✔✔True
