Unit 10 Quiz

Advocating for access to education for girls that was equal to that for boys

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Wollstonecraft

Which quote would have been said by an absolute monarch?

• People in a state of nature are solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

• The rights and prohibitions of the nation are joined with my body and reside in my hands alone. Public order in its entirety comes from me.

• It is the parliament that must make the laws

• The government must be based on a sound constitution.

Which sources of knowledge were most central to the Scientific Revolution?

• tradition and reliance on Church teachings

• observation and experimentation

• classical learning

• Biblical texts

Humans have natural rights: Life, Liberty, Property

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

What philosophical movement of the Renaissance helped pave the way for the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment?

• Catholic Counter-Reformation

• Divine right

• Mercantilism

• Humanism

All of the following are characteristics of an absolute monarchy EXCEPT:

• monarchs have total control

• kings share power with Parliament

• centralization of power

• rule by divine right

In the 1500s and 1600s, scientists such as Galileo and ____________ showed that the planets actually revolve around the sun

• Rene Descartes

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Francis Bacon

The theory that the planets revolve around the sun

• revolution

• Ptolemaic

• geocentric

• heliocentric

Separation of powers (splitting the government into different branches)

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Since ancient times, people had believed that the _________ was the center of the universe.