Deck 22: The Challenge of Secularism

Question 1

Who said "God is dead?"

A) Rousseau
B) Voltaire
C) Nietzsche
D) Shelley

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Nietzsche was a Nihilist.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Shelley was expelled from Oxford for writing____________.

Answer 3

The Necessity of Atheism

Question 4

James Ussher argued that the world began in

A) 100,000 bce.
B) 46,000 bce.
C) 10,000 bce.
D) 4004 bce.

Question 5

Who provided evidence that the British Isles emerged in a series of geological events?

A) Charles Darwin
B) James Ussher
C) William Smith
D) Charles Lyell

Question 6

__________ popularized the idea of uniformitarianism, that geological change consists of the slow accumulation of smaller changes.

Question 7

Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection in

A) 1790.
B) 1859.
C) 1889.
D) 1910.

Question 8

Early opposition to evolution came from _______

A) the Anglican Church
B) scientists
C) psychologists
D) politicians

Question 9

Time and space are elastic and should be conceived as different aspects of the same dimension, called ____________.

Question 10

Quanta behaved like particles, not like waves.

Question 11

Who discovered the quantum?

A) Max Planck
B) Albert Einstein
C) J.J. Thompson
D) Wilhelm Rontgen

Question 12

Einstein finished his Special Theory of Relativity in

A) 1880.
B) 1899.
C) 1905.
D) 1929.

Question 13

Nietzsche argued that __________ would do a better job of ruling than the general masses.

Question 14

Oscar Wilde wrote ____________while in prison.

Question 15

Freud argued that dreams originate as___________.

Question 16

Freud published Three Essays in the Theory of Sexuality in

A) 1889.
B) 1905.
C) 1909.
D) 1919.

Question 17

The closest thing to a Modernist manifesto was written by

A) Picasso.
B) Van Gogh.
C) Yates.
D) Baudelaire.

Question 18

_____________wrote On the Spiritual Element in Art.

Question 19

The Catholic Church insisted on the right of workers to form unions in Rerum Novarum.

Question 20

The Pope who declared war on modernity was _______.

A) John Paul II
B) Leo XIII
C) Pius X
D) Urban II