Age of Enlightenment

Age of Enlightenment

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Kevin Laterza

Social Studies

7th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?
power and privilege
money and fame
good looks and charm
reason and logic

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries? 
Catholic Church
Roman Gods
Baptist ministers
The Queen of Spain

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is an example of an “unlimited government?”
Democracy
Republic
Absolute Monarch
Constitutional Monarchy

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Many rulers came to power believing that their right to lead came from God. This is an example of: 
Supreme Law
Divine Right
Their Opinion
Poor Judgement

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The Scientific Revolution can best be described as:
A period when scientists embraced the teachings of the Church
The time when the Catholic Church empathized most with scientists 
period when scientists began to question the old teachings of the Church
 Scientific property invented by astrophysicists to explain the rotation of the Earth

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

The procedure for testing theories that starts with a question
Methods of Operation
Scientific Method
Procedural Operations
Steps in a process 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Because he feared the Church, what Polish astronomer waited to publish his heliocentric theory until he was near death?
Johannes Kepler
Nicolaus Copernicus 
Isaac Newton 
Francis Bacon 

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image
This diagram is representative of which theory that was supported by the Catholic Church? 
Geocentric 
Concentric
Heliocentric 
Geothermantic

9.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Sir Isaac Newton is associated with the Laws of:
Electricity
Motion and gravity
Human biology
Astronomy 

10.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which astronomer was tried for heresy and placed under house arrest because he argued that the universe was heliocentric?
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Newton 
Galileo 

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