Spread of Enlightenment Ideas

Why would Enlightenment ideas not be popular with the absolute monarchs who ruled Europe at that time? Choose the two correct answers.

• The ideas supported the idea of divine right.

• These ideas threatened monarchs' right to rule.

• These ideas gave people a reason to want a different absolute monarch.

• These ideas spread the seeds of discontent and revolution.

What was Diderot's goal in creating the Enclyclopedia?

• He wanted to make the world's knowledge available to everyone.

• He wanted to make the absolute monarchs question their own authority.

• He wanted to improve the literacy rates in Europe.

• He wanted to get rich quickly.

What ideas appealed to the middle class readers of the Encyclopedia?

• Divine Right to Rule

• Keeping the social class structure in place.

• Social justice, liberty, and the right to happiness

• The strong hand of a central leader.

Neoclassicism was a new form of art that was inspired the realism of ancient Greek and Roman artists.

• True

• False

What is an "Enlightened Despot"?

• A monarch who made decisions that helped their citizens.

• An absolute monarch who believed in the divine right to rule.

• A monarch who gave up his or her thrown.

• A monarch who knew an Enlightenment thinker.