AP World 5.1 and 5.2 Quiz

Enlightened thinkers and scientists of the 17th and 18th centuries based their beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege

• money and fame

• Church and Absolutism

• reason and logic

How did the Reformation spark both the Enlightenment and scientific revolution

• By legitimizing the supremacy of the Catholic Church

• By arguing and challenging tradition and authority

• By eliminating Christianity in Europe

• By arguing for a return to feudalism

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

A form of government where one person holds unlimited and complete control of the state without any restrictions on power is

• Direct democracy

• Absolute monarchy

• Representative democracy

• Constitutional monarchy

Many European absolute monarchs justified their right to rule based on

• Supreme Law

• Divine Right

• Papal authority (Pope's permission)

• Their popularity

The English political philosopher who argued all humans are born with natural rights including life, liberty, and property was

• Jean Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• John Locke

The Enlightenment philosopher who used comedy to argue for freedom of speech and religion was

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Locke

The French political philosopher who believed in separating powers of government into different branches to avoid abuse of power was

• Jean Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• John Locke

The philosophical idea that people agree to be governed in exchange for the civility and protection an efficient government can provided is called the

• Magna Carta

• Scientific method

• Great Awakening

• Social contract

The ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft were instrumental in beginning what major social reform movement in Europe and the Americas in the 19th century?

• Conservatism

• Feminism

• Abolitionism

• Constitutionalism