Age of Enlightenment

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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

Which of the following is an example of an “unlimited government?”

• Democracy
• Republic
• Absolute Monarch
• Constitutional Monarchy

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

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

The procedure for testing theories that starts with a question

• Methods of Operation
• Scientific Method
• Procedural Operations
• Steps in a process 

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 

This diagram is representative of which theory that was supported by the Catholic Church? 

• Geocentric 
• Concentric
• Heliocentric 
• Geothermantic

Sir Isaac Newton is associated with the Laws of:

• Electricity
• Motion and gravity
• Human biology
• Astronomy 

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

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Newton 
• Galileo