Enlightenment

Question 1

Answer 1

Boucher: Brown Odalisque

Question 2

Answer 2

Fragonard: The Swing
Style: Rococo

Question 3

Answer 3

Monticello was Thomas Jefferson’s house

Question 4

Answer 4

Canova: Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss
Neoclassical sculpture

Question 5

Answer 5

Jacques-Louis: Oath of the Horatii.
Neoclassical art style

Question 6

Answer 6

Jacques-Louis: Death of Socrates
Neoclassical art style

Question 7

Novel

Answer 7

A new style of literature which developed in the 18th century.

Question 8

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 8

British feminist of the eighteenth century who argued for women’s equality with men, even in voting, in her 1792 “Vindication of the Rights of Women.”

Question 9

Haydn

Answer 9

An Austrian composer who wrote more than 100 symphonies.

Question 10

Mozart

Answer 10

An Austrian composer famous for his string quartets.

Question 11

Madame Pompadour

Answer 11

This mistress to Louis XV was a patron of Rococo art.

Question 12

Adam Smith

Answer 12

Scottish; “Wealth of Nations book”; first economist;

Question 13

Novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Answer 13

It tells the ‘true story’ of a young Englishman who, against the wishes of his parents, sets sail on a dangerous sea voyage.

And his perseverance ensures his survival through storms, enslavement, and a twenty-eight-year isolation on a desert island

Question 14

Isaac Newton

Answer 14

Was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.

Question 15

Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal

Answer 15

Presented in the guise of an economic treatise, the essay proposes that the country ameliorate poverty in Ireland by butchering the children of the Irish poor and selling them as food to wealthy English landlords