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This activity contains 38 questions.

	Baroque painters depicted their subjects in a thoroughly naturalistic, rather than an idealized, manner.

	True False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Roughly 80 percent of the victims of witch-hunts were , most single and aged over 40.

Which of the following educational institutions did women have access to?

princely courtsuniversitiesmonasteriesroyal societies

	Mary Cavendish was the only woman in the seventeenth century to be allowed to visit a meeting of the Royal Society of London.

	True False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The process that introduced systematic observation of nature, a mathematically rational conception of the world, and significant new theories in astronomy is commonly referred to as "The ."

Who wrote Leviathan?

John LockeRené DescartesThomas HobbesFrancis Bacon

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Copernicus adopted many elements of the Ptolemaic model, but transferred them to a model that assumed that the Earth moved about the sun in a circle.

	For Bacon, the goal of science was human improvement.
	For Bacon, the goal of science was human improvement.
	True False

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the decline of witch-hunts?

With advances in medicine, people had a greater sense of physical securityThe Church changed its stance on witch-hunts.Witches would accuse judges and leading townspeopleMind and matter came to be seen as two independent realities

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Scientific occurs when scientists draw and test hypotheses against empirical observations.

	Locke declared that if the ruler breaks a contract with the people then the people have the right to replace that ruler.

	True False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The most famous baroque painter was Michelangelo .

Which thinker championed deductive reasoning as the way to comprehend the world?

BaconGalileoNewtonDescartes

John Ray argued in The Wisdom of God Manifested in His Works of Creation that

the earth was not at the center of the universe.human beings were meant to improve the world as part of God's plan. the earth was at the center of the universe. religion and reason should not mix.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. People who would sell their ideas, often improbable, to the highest bidder were known as .

	Baroque art is often associated with Roman Catholicism.
	Baroque art is often associated with Roman Catholicism.
	True False

The new science and its associated philosophy

were embraced by the Catholic church.was generally based in, and supportive of, universities.opposed Scholasticism and Aristotelianism.were based in ancient texts.

	Francis Bacon is the founder of modern physics.
	Francis Bacon is the founder of modern physics.
	True False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Because of the reluctance of universities to rapidly assimilate the new science, its pioneers established what have been termed "institutions of " that allowed information and ideas associated with the new science to be gathered, exchanged, and debated.

	Empiricism rejects experimentation as a scientific tool.
	Empiricism rejects experimentation as a scientific tool.
	True False

Which types of women were most likely to participate in scientific activities?

noblewomen and female artisansFrench and Germannuns and villagersEnglish and Spanish

	Brahe developed the first astronomical model that actually portrayed planetary motion.

	True False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Emilie du Chatelet helped write a French popularization of Newton's science, because she knew more about math than he did.

	Thomas Hobbes supported absolute government as a means to ensure the security of the population.

	True False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The condemnation of by Roman Catholic authorities in 1633 is the single most famous incident of conflict between modern science and religious institutions.

Francis Bacon believed that the two books of divine revelation were

the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible.the Old Testament and the New Testament.nature and nature's works.the Bible and nature.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Art historians use the term to denote the style associated with seventeenth-century painting, sculpture, and architecture.

	In the late thirteenth century, the church categorically condemned magic.

	True False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The eighteenth-century movement known as the built upon the knowledge of groups associated with the new science.

Which of the following was NOT a belief of Pascal?

Human beings, because they are corrupt by nature, are utterly unworthy of God.Belief in God improved life psychologically and disciplined it morally.A loving God exists.Reason is an all-powerful force.