Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution Quiz

Which did the Enlightenment promote?

• a belief in progress

• a more secular outlook

• faith in science

• all of the above

John Locke argued that the purpose of the government is to

• protect a monarch’s divine right.

• suppress discontent among citizens.

• protect a citizen’s natural rights.

• persecute the proletariat.

The scientific method differed from the way in which earlier scientists tried to understand nature because it

• used logic as its main tool.

• relied on the teachings of the Church.

• advocated observation and experimentation.

• challenged the concept of natural laws.

Which were caused by the Scientific Revolution?

• the belief that the earth was an unmoving object at the center of the universe

• improvements in medicine and scientific instruments

• reliance on ancient authorities to explain the physical world

• Enlightenment thinking and the use of reason to think about the world around them

Which Enlightenment thinker believed in general will, a will that tries to protect the interests of most of the people in the country?

• John Locke

• Copernicus

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

What is true of John Locke’s tabula rasa?

• Students need to write down their ideas in order to learn them

• All knowledge comes from experience or perception

• The government should protect free thought

• Elections should be fair

How are the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment alike?

• Everyone shared their ideas in salons

• The Catholic Church supported all of the new ideas

• They used natural laws to explain the universe

• They all tried to prove gravity

What is the social contract that Locke and Rousseau believed in?

• Members of society cooperate and sacrifice some freedom in order to get benefits

• Writers should be able to have free speech without persecution

• Society should have written contracts of laws and freedoms

• Destructive governments should be abolished

What was Voltaire’s Candide?

• A criticism of the British government

• A book he wrote as satire in order to avoid censorship

• A written pamphlet urging Americans to declare independence

• A novel that inspired the Declaration of Independence

Who was a strong advocate for the idea that individuals should choose their own religion, or religious freedom?

• Kepler

• Voltaire

• Galileo

• Rousseau