Absolute Monarch & Enlightenment Test

What type of power is held by an absolute monarch?

• Power over all aspects of a nation's social, political, economic, and cultural identity.

• Extensive power, but limited by a constitution and the nobility

• Only the power the nation is willing to give, often just enough to act as a government figurehead.

Divine right refers to the belief that...

• nobles served monarchs before they served God

• people had the right to choose a religion

• monarchs received the right to absolute power from God

• monarchs and nobles sought divine advice from God

Henry the VIII ruled what country?

• England

• Russia

• Spain

• France

Louis the XIV ruled what country?

• England

• Russia

• Spain

• France

What impact did the Enlightenment have on Absolute Monarchs?

• It caused an increase in them in various nations throughout Europe

• It caused people to question them and favor more Democratic governments

• It caused the acceptance of Divine Right as a legitimate political theory

• All of the above

Which monarch was the Czar of Russia?

• King Louis XIV

• Peter the Great

• Phillip II

• Henry VIII

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

According to what you have learned, who said women should be treated as equal as men?

• Hillary Clinton

• Barbara Walters

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

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

• Mozart

• Bach

• Newton 

• Galileo