Unit 6 World History Exam

Multiple Choice — Mark the correct answer. What did John Locke believe about government?

• It should focus on wealth distribution.

• It should enforce religious beliefs.

• It should protect natural rights.

• It should allow absolute rule.

Multiple Choice — Mark the correct answer. What did Voltaire advocate for during the Enlightenment?

• Absolute monarchy

• Agrarian reform

• Freedom of speech

• Religious uniformity

Multiple Choice — Mark the correct answer. What role did Enlightenment philosophers play in revolutions?

• They promoted feudalism.

• They led military campaigns.

• They opposed all forms of government.

• They inspired change and reform.

Multiple Choice — Mark the correct answer. What did the Enlightenment promote for women?

• Domesticity and subservience.

• Exclusion from society.

• Education and intellectual freedom.

• Complete political power.

Multiple Choice — Mark the correct answer. Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke both agreed that a government should be based on the -

• Separation of nationalities

• Religious values of the people

• Equal distribution of wealth

• Consent of the governed (people should have a say)

Multiple Choice — Mark the correct answer. Philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that society could best be improved by

• Relying on faith and divine right

• Borrowing ideas from ancient Greece and Rome

• Applying reason and the laws of nature

• Following royal commands

Multiple Choice — Mark the correct answer. One way in which Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau are similar is that they were

• supporters of the Counter Reformation

• philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment

• chief ministers during the French Revolution

• leaders of the Italian unification movement

Multiple Choice — Mark the correct answer. “When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. . . . Again, there is no liberty if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive.” — Montesquieu What concept is Montesquieu talking about in the excerpt above?

• Federalism

• Separation of powers

• Unalienable Rights

• Social contract

Multiple Choice — 1 pt. Mark the correct answer. The phrase “no taxation without representation” -

• summed up the colonists feelings that all taxes should be abolished.

• explained that the colonists were upset that they were not represented in Parliament.

• explained that the colonists wanted to be an independent country.

• summed up the colonists arguments against the Declaration of Independence.

Multiple Choice — 1 pt. Mark the correct answer. The term “Bill of Rights” refers to -

• the document that specifies separation of church and state

• a revision of the Articles of Confederation

• the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution

• rights given to the colonists by King George III