JQuiz Instructions

1. In 1600, in the Square of the Flowers in Rome, this pantheist and inspiration to Spinoza was burned at the stake.

   1.   ?  Bacon
      
   2.   ?  Descartes
      
   3.   ?  Bruno
      
   4.   ?  Galileo
      
   
   

2. Who made use of "the method of doubt?"

   1.   ?  Bacon
      
   2.   ?  Descartes
      
   3.   ?  Bruno
      
   4.   ?  Galileo
      
   
   

3. Bacon composed a lits of typical errors we make when trying to understand the world. He called these errors...

   1.   ?  ...biases.
      
   2.   ?  ...myths.
      
   3.   ?  ...idols.
      
   4.   ?  ...booboos
      
   
   

4. What early scientist first contrasted primary and secondary qualities?

   1.   ?  Bacon
      
   2.   ?  Descartes
      
   3.   ?  Bruno
      
   4.   ?  Galileo
      
   
   

5. Which is Descartes' most famous statement?

   1.   ?  "Man is a machine."
      
   2.   ?  "To be is to be perceived."
      
   3.   ?  "No matter, never mind."
      
   4.   ?  "I think, therefore I am."
      
   
   

6. A Moravian bishop in Poland named Jan Comenius is best known for...

   1.   ?  ...introducing modern ideas of education.
      
   2.   ?  ...basing his philosophy on doubt.
      
   3.   ?  ...outlining the rules of empirical science.
      
   4.   ?  ...writing a book on the treatment of witches.
      
   
   

7. Erasmus, Thomas More, and Machiavelli, each in their own way, represented a trend in philosophy called...

   1.   ?  ...Protestantism.
      
   2.   ?  ...Romanticism.
      
   3.   ?  ...Skepticism.
      
   4.   ?  ...Humanism.
      
   
   

8. Which of these religious figures objected to the selling of indulgences and other irregularites of the church of his time with his 95 Theses?

   1.   ?  John Calvin
      
   2.   ?  Martin Luther
      
   3.   ?  Henry VIII
      
   4.   ?  Michael Servetus