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Enlightenment Practice Test

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Social Studies

11th Grade

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Enlightenment Practice Test
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the Scientific Revolution set the conditions for the Enlightenment Philosophers?

The Scientific Revolution discouraged questioning of established norms.

Reason and theory was applied to every government and society rather than just science

Enlightenment philosophers rejected all scientific ideas from the Scientific Revolution.

People stopped questioning why things were the way they were

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who wrote 'Leviathan' and believed in the need for a strong central authority to avoid chaos?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Denis Diderot

Thomas Hobbes

Mary Wollstonecraft

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Voltaire is known for advocating which of the following ideas?

Natural Rights

Social Contract

Freedom of speech, religion, and separation of church and state

Women's Rights

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which work is associated with Mary Wollstonecraft?

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The Social Contract

Candide

Encyclopédie

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Denis Diderot is known for co-editing which significant work?

The Social Contract

Encyclopédie

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Candide

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to Enlightenment thinkers like Locke, what cannot be taken away by governments?

Social Contract

Natural Rights

Freedom of Expression

Equality

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who argued for a strong, centralized authority to prevent chaos?

Locke

Rousseau

Hobbes

Montesquieu

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