Question 1
Conservatives such as Burke believed all the following to be true EXCEPT
a. human nature and social relations are too complex to be subject to social engineering.
b. the Enlightenment and revolutionaries had reduced people to abstractions divorced from their historical environment.
c. individuals have only limited intelligence and must rely on the general bank and capital of nations and of the ages.
d. beneficial institutions need not be rational or intellectually elegant.
e. society is a complex mechanism that should be overhauled.
Question 2
What event precipitated the end of the Second French Republic in 1851?
a. Prussia invaded and occupied France.
b. The army overthrew the Republic in a coup.
c. The legislature voluntarily disbanded.
d. A tornado tore about the government buildings.
e. The voters abolished it in a vote.
French Brittany
French Spaniel
Martian tripod illustration from the 1906 French edition of The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells.
Republic of Kiribati
Ann Hamilton, the event of a thread.
French fries