Who believed torture served no purpose and it should be abolished?

• Cesare Beccaria

• Jeremy Bentham

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

The French word for philosopher is:

• philosophe

• philosopher

• philosophia

• philosophique

The theory that the Earth is the center of the universe is called?

• Heliocentric theory

• Geocentric theory

• Big Bang theory

• String theory

Who compiled the first encyclopedia?

• Aristotle

• Denis Diderot

• Hippocrates

• Herodotus

What is a change of thinking from one way to another known as?

• Paradigm shift

• Cognitive dissonance

• Mental block

• Epiphany

Who believed in freedom of speech and the separation of church and state?

• Voltaire

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Gatherings at which aristocrats discussed the new philosophies are called:

• Salons

• Symposiums

• Conferences

• Assemblies

Operations on live animals are called:

• Surgery

• Experimentation

• Vivisection

• Dissection

What involves the use of experiments and math to search for 'truth'?

• Scientific method

• Art

• Literature

• Philosophy

Who was an ancient Greek medical expert?

• Galen

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle