5.1 -- Enlightenment and Revolutions Quiz

What is the Enlightenment?

• An intellectual movement that applied new ways of understanding such as rationalism and empiricist approaches

• A political movement that focused on absolute monarchy

• A movement that emphasized emotion over reason

• A religious movement that rejected scientific thinking

What is rationalism according to the Enlightenment?

• Rejecting the use of senses for gaining knowledge

• Emphasizing emotion as the source of true knowledge

• Arguing that reason is the most reliable source of true knowledge

• Believing in the divine revelation as the only source of knowledge

What is empiricism according to the Enlightenment?

• Emphasizing emotion as the source of true knowledge

• Arguing that reason is the most reliable source of true knowledge

• Rejecting the use of senses for gaining knowledge

• Believing in the divine revelation as the only source of knowledge

What was the main purpose of the government according to the social contract idea of the Enlightenment?

• To control and suppress the natural rights of individuals

• To protect the natural rights of individuals

• To establish a tyrannical rule over the people

• To abolish all forms of government

Which major revolutions were influenced by Enlightenment ideas?

• Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions

• Scientific and Technological Revolutions

• American, French, and Haitian Revolutions

• Russian and Chinese Revolutions

What did deists believe in?

• A belief in multiple gods

• A complete rejection of religious belief

• A God that created all things and then no longer intervened

• A God that intervened in the created order

What was a significant reason for the expansion of suffrage in some places during the Enlightenment period?

• The promotion of slavery

• The emphasis on natural rights

• The rejection of individualism

• The support for absolute monarchy

What did the feminist movement in the United States call for at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848?

• Recognition of women's right to own property

• Recognition of women's right to vote

• Recognition of women's right to serve in the military

• Recognition of women's right to hold public office

What did Enlightenment thinkers emphasize as the most basic element of society?

• Collective groups

• Individual humans

• Government institutions

• Religious organizations

What did Enlightenment ideas lead to the abolition of in some places?

• Religious institutions

• Monarchy

• Industrialization

• Serfdom