Enlightenment Thinkers and Scientists Quiz

Who was the absolute monarch of Russia from 1696 to 1725 that worked to "westernize" & modernize Russia?

• Alexander the Great

• Peter the Great

• Ivan the Terrible

Which French Enlightenment thinker criticized monarchy, nobility, & the Church while defending religious freedom and freedom of speech?

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• L'Ouverture

Which English Enlightenment thinker believed that everyone had natural rights of life, liberty & property and that the purpose of government was to protect those natural rights?

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Which Enlightenment thinker believed that government control should be kept to a minimum, that government should be freely elected, and that the collective good (general will) of the people should be valued above the individual (direct democracy)?

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Which Danish mathematician proved heliocentric theory using math and model while showing that planets orbit the sun in an elliptical (oval shaped) pattern?

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Newton

Which Italian scientist proved heliocentric theory using a telescope in the 1630's and was then tried by the Catholic Inquisition for opposing church teachings?

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Newton

Which Polish scientist proposed heliocentric theory in 1543?

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Kepler

Which English scientist/mathematician theorized that gravity held planets in orbits around the sun and explained laws of gravity & motion?

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Newton

Who liberated Argentina, Chile & Peru in cooperation with Simon Bolivar?

• Hidalgo

• San Martin

• Napoleon

Who led revolutions in Spanish S. America in the early 1800's? Bolivia is named after him.

• San Martin

• Napoleon

• Bolivar