
Age of Reason/Enlightenment
Authored by Scarlett Sullivan
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9th - 10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 5 pts
We call this era the "Age of Reason" because people began to apply __________ to society and government.
Logic
Tyranny
Tradition
Religion
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?
natural right
natural law
social contract
divine right
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Laissez faire is when the government operates with
little trade regulation
tariffs
mercantilism
a lot of trade regulation
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they
wrote fiction
challenged the old order
supported traditional ideas
wrote in salons
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Rousseau
Diderot
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights (life, liberty, and property) of the people?
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
René Descartes
John Locke
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Influential opponents of the Enlightenment included
enlightened despots
the American and French colonies
church authorities
Defoe and Hayden
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