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Enlightenment Mastery check

Enlightenment Mastery check

Assessment

Interactive Video

Social Studies

10th - 12th Grade

Hard

Created by

LaTonja Decambre

FREE Resource

23 questions

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1.

SLIDE QUESTION

30 sec • Ungraded

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"People are driven by a restless desire for power. Without laws or other social controls, people would always be in conflict. In such a state of nature, life would be nasty, brutish and short. "

Leviathan , Which enlightenment thinker wrote this?

John Locke

Beccaria

Thomas Hobbes

Voltaire

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall…proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of the House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent…to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. "

U.S. Constitution -Which Enlightenment thinker influenced this quote?

John Locke

Montesquieu

Beccaria

Hobbes

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed… whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government. "

Declaration of Independence, 1776 -Which enlightenment thinker wrote this?

Montesquieu

Beccaria

Voltaire

John Locke

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.


Declaration of Independence, 1776 -Which Enlightenment thinker influenced this quote?

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Hobbes

John Locke

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging [limiting] the freedom of speech or of the press. "-U.S. Bill of Rights, 1791

Which Enlightenment thinker influenced this quote?

Montesquieu

Beccaria

Voltaire

John Locke

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Which Enlightenment thinker wrote this quote?

Montesquieu

Beccaria

Voltaire

John Locke

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