Module 12 Test - Whitehead

All of the following were important influences on the Enlightenment EXCEPT

• English political and economic stability

• The ideas of Rousseau and Locke

• A geocentric worldview

Francis Bacon helped to develop

• The microscope

• The scientific method

In general, the philosophes believed in which of the following?

• Expanding women’s rights

• Progress for society

• Authoritarian rule

Which of the following did the Enlightenment promote?

• A belief in progress

• A more secular outlook

• Faith in science

• All of the above

Which of the following were caused by the scientific revolution?

• The belief that the earth was at the center of the universe

• Improvements in medicine and scientific instruments

• The belief that the human body was similar to the anatomy of animals

This is an agreement in which people gave up the state of nature for an organized society.

• Natural rights

• Social contract

• Enlightenment

Who said, “I do not agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Voltaire

This person created the first vaccine (to cure smallpox).

• Edward Jenner

• Rousseau

• Mary Wollstonecraft

This person built one of the first telescopes. He was put under house arrest at the end of his life.

• Galileo Galilei

• Copernicus

What is the geocentric theory?

• Earth-centered theory

• Theory about how to make vaccines that make people fly

• I’m sorry miss Jackson