Which of the following was a function of the L’Accademia dei Lincei?
A) reviewing proposals for heresy
B) publishing discoveries and theories
C) preserving the writings of the ancient Greeks
D) translating the works of Islamic scholars
B) publishing discoveries and theories
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According to the myth of Romulus and Remus, the abandoned twins were raised by
a. The Senate. b. An Etruscan king. c. Greek farmers. d. The god Mars. e. A wolf.
How did the European Christians and the humanists reconcile their divergent ideas?
A) These ideals were never reconciled. B) The Christians learned from the humanists that accepting some pagan thought as valid did not invalidate love of God. C) The Christians used many of the ancient artistic methods and writings as a tool to better depict their love and support of God. D) None of these E) All of these
Albert Einstein supported the view that
A) heated bodies release continuous waves of radiation. B) space and time are objective realities that are divorced from human experience. C) the universe operates according to rigid laws of cause and effect. D) the nature of the atom is solid and indivisible. E) there is no absolute and motionless fixed frame of reference anywhere in the universe.
After the Tiananmen Square incident, the Communist government
a. ordered Marxist-Leninist ideology to be removed from school curriculums. b. demanded that Marxist-Leninist ideology be taught in schools. c. allowed dissidents within the intellectual communist society to publically criticize Marxist-Leninist practices as long as they did so peacefully. d. restricted Marxist-Leninist teaching to only the university level, as the demonstrators had mostly been university students. e. authorized the "fifth modernization" so long as the voters did not question the Marxist-Leninist ideology.