René Descartes Quiz

What is the study of ideas about knowledge, life, and truth called?

• Chemistry

• Philosophy

• Physics

• Biology

Where did René Descartes spend much of his life thinking and writing?

• Sweden

• France

• Holland

• Germany

At what age did René Descartes join the Dutch army?

• 18

• 20

• 22

• 25

What did Descartes base his thinking on to prove his existence?

• His beliefs

• His senses

• His thoughts

• His emotions

What did Descartes promise himself regarding accepting truths?

• To believe in faith alone

• To doubt everything except his own existence

• To accept everything as true

• To never question anything

What did Descartes encourage people to do regarding their own existence?

• To accept it without proof

• To doubt it until proven true

• To ignore it completely

• To believe in faith alone

What caught the attention of Queen Christina of Sweden regarding Descartes?

• His work on mathematics

• His fame throughout Europe

• His illness

• His insistence on reason

Where did Descartes die?

• France

• Holland

• Germany

• Sweden

What did Descartes introduce the world to?

• A new way of writing

• A new way of farming

• A new way of traveling

• A new way of thinking about knowledge

Why is Descartes remembered as the father of modern philosophy?

• Because of his love for travel

• Because of his work on mathematics

• Because of his insistence on reason

• Because of his illness in Sweden