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Quiz about Philosophical Treatises With Long Titles

Philosophical Treatises With Long Titles! Quiz

Did you ever notice how long some titles were on those old philosophical treatises from the Renaissance period and beyond? Now you'll get a chance to apply that information to a useful cause...trivia!

A multiple-choice quiz by thejazzkickazz. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
thejazzkickazz

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
60,241

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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1282

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Question 1 of 10

1. Which Pope came in with the real whizzer of a title, 'On the Misery of the Human Condition'? Hint

Gregory VII

Pius X

Innocent III

Leo VI

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of these fellows thought he had a best-seller with 'Oration on the Dignity of Man'? Hint

Saint Augustine

Michael Servetus

Coluccio Salutati

Pico della Mirandola

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Question 3 of 10

3. Whose 'Declamation Concerning the False Decretals of Constantine' managed to get the attention of church authorities, but did not make the New York Times list? Hint

Martin Luther

Saint Vincent

Lorenzo Valla

Francois Rebelais

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which fellow came up with the Michener-esque title 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'? Hint

Copernicus

Newton

Kepler

Galileo

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Question 5 of 10

5. 'Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius' was most likely one of the lesser known titles from which 'prince'ly fellow? Hint

Machiavelli

Petrarch

Dante

Boccaccio

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Question 6 of 10

6. Whose 'Philosophical Commentary on the Words of Jesus 'Constrain them to Come in'' knocked them out in the aisles of late 17th century bookstores? Hint

Thomas Paine

John Toland

Pierre Bayle

Matthew Tindal

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Question 7 of 10

7. Which early American colonist was the author of the tome with the catchy title 'The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Causes of Conscience'? Hint

Miles Standish

Roger Williams

William Penn

Peter Minuet

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Question 8 of 10

8. Just when you think the titles couldn't get any longer, along came whom with his 'Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind'? Hint

Cesare Beccaria

Marquis de Condorcet

Pierre Turgot

Denis Diderot

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Question 9 of 10

9. Following Olympe de Gouges' 'Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, who followed up with 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' in 1792? Hint

George Eliot

Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft

Elizabeth Browning

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Question 10 of 10

10. Whose 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism', published at the beginning of the 20th century, ends our tremulous trek through these treacherous titles? Hint

Friedrich Engels

Sigmund Freud

Max Weber

John Keynes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which Pope came in with the real whizzer of a title, 'On the Misery of the Human Condition'?

Answer: Innocent III

You'd think the Pope's job would be to uplift and exalt, but not old Innocent. He was probably the most powerful Pope of all-time.

2. Which of these fellows thought he had a best-seller with 'Oration on the Dignity of Man'?

Answer: Pico della Mirandola

Old Pico, he was full of confidence but managed not to sell widely, but he did get the attention of Pope Alexander VI. Unfortunately, this attention was negative!

3. Whose 'Declamation Concerning the False Decretals of Constantine' managed to get the attention of church authorities, but did not make the New York Times list?

Answer: Lorenzo Valla

This work by Valla may not have made headlines, but it did prove the famous 'Donation of Constantine', a document supporting papal claims to temporal authority, to be a major forgery!

4. Which fellow came up with the Michener-esque title 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'?

Answer: Galileo

Okay, so maybe it wasn't Michener-esque, per se...but I think it would make an interesting name for a novel. Galileo thought it a snappy title in his defense of the Copernican heliocentric theory, but the Church fathers didn't, they made him recant.

5. 'Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius' was most likely one of the lesser known titles from which 'prince'ly fellow?

Answer: Machiavelli

Ah...I hope you noticed my not-so-Machiavellian hint in the question. Over time, Machiavelli has received a bad name as a result of his realist political perspective, but his writings really are fantastic!

6. Whose 'Philosophical Commentary on the Words of Jesus 'Constrain them to Come in'' knocked them out in the aisles of late 17th century bookstores?

Answer: Pierre Bayle

In this work, Bayle pleaded for religious tolerance in an age when not much was to be found. Maybe if he had shortened the title a bit more folks would have read it and we'd have a better world today?

7. Which early American colonist was the author of the tome with the catchy title 'The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Causes of Conscience'?

Answer: Roger Williams

Another anti-intolerance (pro-tolerance?) pusher, Roger Williams fled persecution in Massachusetts before founding the Rhode Island colony.

8. Just when you think the titles couldn't get any longer, along came whom with his 'Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind'?

Answer: Marquis de Condorcet

Condorcet wrote 'Sketch' in 1793-4 while in hiding from those wacky Jacobins of French Revolutionary fame. Condorcet believed in toleration and the improvement of the human condition while in the midst of the horrors of his times...unfortunately, his detractors did not read his book!

9. Following Olympe de Gouges' 'Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, who followed up with 'Vindication of the Rights of Women' in 1792?

Answer: Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft was the mother of Mary Shelley, who prefered the less cumbersome title of 'Frankenstein' for her masterpiece.

10. Whose 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism', published at the beginning of the 20th century, ends our tremulous trek through these treacherous titles?

Answer: Max Weber

Max Weber, still revered today as one of history's greatest sociologists. So ends our quiz...I hope you enjoyed. Despite my making light of the titles of these works, all are tremendous gifts bestowed upon posterity by the above authors...I celebrate them!

Source: Author thejazzkickazz

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