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Chapter 22 Quiz
The Challenge of Secularism 1800–1914
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The declining power of religious beliefs, values, institutions, and practices is called _______.
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The first atheists in the modern sense of believing that there are no gods appeared in the _______ century.
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The clergyman _______ calculated that the earth was created in 4004 BCE.
Charles Darwin
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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James Ussher
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Johannes Kepler
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The theory of uniformitarianism was popularized by _______.
Charles Lyell
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Charles Darwin
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James Ussher
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James Hutton
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Darwin's great contribution to science was the development of his theory of evolution by _______.
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Darwin's famous work On the Origin of Species gave credit for species' change over time to the actions of _______.
mankind
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God
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Climate change
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Natural selection
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Quantum theory was invented by _______.
Max Planck
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J. J. Thomson
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Albert Einstein
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Isaac Newton.
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Which came first, the theory of special relativity or the theory of general relativity? ____
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Nietzsche called the struggle of humanity to make a mark on the world _______.
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To Nietzsche, the root of the will to power was _______.
domination
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fear
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creativity
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violence
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The belief in art for art's sake was called _______.
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Aestheticism was anti-_______.
Capitalist
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Mass production
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Modern art
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Spiritualism
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Critics used the metaphor of illness at the turn of the century to describe _______.
The state of medical treatment
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The state of western culture
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Democratic politics
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capitalism
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The inventor of psychoanalysis was _______.
Carl Jung
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Pierre Janet
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Sigmund Freud
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Which of the following are part of the conscious mind, according to Freud? Select all that apply.
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Subconscious
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Ego
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Superego
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Modernism began with _______ around 1860.
Music
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Architecture
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The visual arts
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Literature
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Did modernists feel positively or negatively about mass culture and popular appeal?
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Rerum novarum
was _______.
A new monastic order
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A papal decree
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A new Protestant church
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None of the above
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Pius X's Syllabus of Errors rejected the tenets of _______.
Protestantism
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Atheism
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Modernism
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Fascism
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Did Jewish Orthodoxy open up to science and modernism or reject it?
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Judaism had never accepted the idea of _______ therefore the idea that humanity evolved from more primitive beginnings did not threaten their tradition.
Evolution
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The Fall of Man
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Geologic time
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A rise from primitive beginnings
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_______ of the European advances and discoveries of the 19th century made an impact in the Islamic world.
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Few
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Many
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Most
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Based on this map, what was the area that the Jews fled from called?
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Is this painting representational art or modernist art? ______
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How does this cartoon misrepresent Darwin's theory of evolution?
Monkeys have not evolved.
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Humans and monkeys don't exist in the same era.
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Humans are not descended from monkeys.
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Monkeys can't use mirrors.
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