Enlightenment Day 4

Multiple Choice

The theory justifying a monarch's rule by God's authority is called

• laissez-faire
• totalitarianism
• predestination
• divine right

Multiple Choice

The primary goal of most of Europe's absolute monarchs was to

• support political freedom for the new middle classes
• prevent contact with areas beyond Europe's borders
• centralize their political control over their nations
• maintain peaceful relations with neighboring nations

Multiple Select

Identify the claim that accurately matches what the author is trying to convey in the passage.

Then, select the evidence that best supports the chosen claim.

(Select two answers, 1 claim, 1 evidence.)

• Claim: Changing circumstances could threaten the independence of the convent in Poitiers.

• Claim: Political instability will lead people to grow closer to God.

• Evidence: The author mentions that, once she dies, a "prince or noble" may try to take the convent "for his own possession".

• Evidence: The author mentions that "the affairs of human beings are unpredictable.

Multiple Choice

A ruler who supported Enlightenment ideas but did not give up power.

• Enlightened depot

• Philosophes

• President

Open Ended

Compare the reforms of Frederick II the Great and Joseph II. In what ways did their approaches to governance and society reflect Enlightenment ideals?

Multiple Select

Which of the following were achievements of Catherine the Great?

• Imported western philosophy

• Expanded the empire greatly

• Established contact with east and west

• All of the above

Open Ended

If you could ask any of the Enlightened Despots one question about their rule, what would it be?