Rousseau insisted that __________ is more important than its individual members.
A. a society
B. the church
C. a family
D. a business
Answer: A
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As Brahe's assistant, Kepler ________
A. stayed closely aligned to the theories of Brahe long after Brahe's death B. grew jealous of Brahe's fame and worked to discount the research they had completed together C. was considered inferior to Brahe as a scientist D. helped collect the scientific data and then interpreted it in his own way after Brahe's death
Louis XVI had alienated most of his subjects by the summer of 1789 in all the following ways EXCEPT
A) his political ties to Prussia. B) the behavior of his queen, Marie Antoinette. C) his failure to solve the national debt question. D) indecision and poor political judgment. E) laziness.
Which of the following was not one of Britain's difficulties during the War for Independence?
A) It had a large but ill-trained army. B) It had difficulty in supplying the army. C) Its navy had been weakened by budget cuts. D) American privateers seriously hampered Britain's merchant marine. E) It had a rising financial burden that the politically influential landed gentry were increasingly reluctant to shoulder.
While Descartes' philosophy was based on introspection, Francis Bacon did not
a. base his knowledge on experimentation. b. use an inductive approach to science. c. believe in carefully controlled observations. d. eliminate God from his studies. e. feel that if one starts with a certainty, one will end in doubt.