Renaissance and Enlightenment

Q. Which of the following are key features of Renaissance?

1. Humanism
2. Irrational beliefs
3. Tradition
4. Scientific temper

Q. Which of the following is incorrect regarding Enlightenment?

1. Scientific inventions in Europe moulded Enlightenment.
2. It was a cultural and intellectual movement.
3. Thinkers of the movement gave importance to reasoning.
4. Thinkers of the movement believed that society is always deteriorating.

Q. was an intellectual and cultural movement associated with the American Revolution.

1. Enlightenment
2. Bolshevism
3. Socialism

Q. _____ emphasised on the importance of humans at both collective and individual levels.

1. Tradition
2. Humanism
3. Scientific temper
4. Freedom

Q. Which of the following best describes 17th and 18th century Europe?

1. Age of Revolution
2. Age of Enlightenment
3. Age of Emperors
4. Age of Luminosity

Q. "Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man".

The above lines were written by which famous Enlightenment philosopher?

1. Rousseau
2. Montesquieu
3. Voltaire
4. Karl Marx

Q. Which was a major characteristic of the Renaissance?

1. Conformity
2. Mysticism
3. Humanism
4. Obedience

Q. The beginning of a uniquely American culture in the 1700s was seen by the __________________________.

1. the success of the American generals who fought in the french and Indian War
2. John Locke's views regarding human rights
3. the development of the belief in transcendentalism
4. the work of the artists and poets like john Trumbull and Phillis Wheatley
5. the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key.

Q. "The 'Print Revolution' had transformed the lives of people, changing their relationship to information and knowledge." Analyze the statement.

Q. Thomas Paine's Common Sense published first in January, 1776 argued that:

1. The colonists were represented virtually in Parliament and therefore were British subjects with no reason to rebel.
2. Colonists should cut their ties with England for a variety of political and economic reasons.
3. Parliament was the problematic entity and further attempts at reconciliation should ignore them in favor of appealing only to King George Ill.
4. The divine right of kings meant that any independence movement was doomed as the colonists were attempting to upset the natural order of the world with talk of independence.
5. Colonists should focus on economic issues and ignore political problems.