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WorksheetsBarclay Enl and Sci Rev
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 33mins
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Class
Date
1.
This was an 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals, aiming to apply reason to all endeavors.
a)
Reformation
b)
Renaissance
c)
Enlightenment
d)
Scientific Revolution
2.
What did Mary Wollstonecraft write?
a)
The U.S. Declaration of Independence
b)
Vindication of the Rights of Women
c)
The French Constitution
d)
Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems
3.
Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights (Life, liberty, property):
a)
Montesquieu
b)
Voltaire
c)
Locke
d)
Rousseau
4.
Adam Smith’s doctrine that maintains that the state should not intervene in economics, from his book Wealth of Nations, is called ______.
a)
Laissez-faire
b)
Socialism
c)
Mercantilism
d)
Imperialism
5.
The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.
a)
a natural law
b)
checks and balances
c)
a social contract
d)
laissez-faire
6.
A distribution of powers to more than one branch of government
a)
natural rights
b)
Separation of Powers
c)
Social Contract
d)
Theocracy
7.
What did Thomas Hobbes believe?
a)
Humans should hurt other humans
b)
Humans were naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy
c)
Humans are all so kind and wonderful
d)
Humans should go to church every day
8.
Which one does not relate to the others?
a)
positive view of people
b)
government protect rights
c)
absolute monarchy
d)
Locke
9.
Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?
a)
John Locke
b)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
c)
Montesquieu
d)
Thomas Hobbes
10.
Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:
a)
A dictatorship
b)
A democracy
c)
An absolute monarchy
d)
All of these
11.
Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Thomas Hobbes
b)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
c)
John Locke
d)
Adam Smith
12.
During the Enlightenment, many people placed their faith in ___.
a)
the church
b)
the military
c)
reason
d)
science
13.
One of the earliest to ask for equal rights for women, what Enlightenment writer questioned the men’s ideas that women should only be educated enough to be good wives and mothers?
a)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Mary Wollstonecraft
c)
Mary Shelley
d)
Catherine the Great
14.
Who wrote about ABSOLUTE monarchs being the best form of government in his book "Leviathan"
a)
Hobbes
b)
Locke
c)
Rousseau
d)
Montesquieu
15.
Who argued against harsh punishments and felt that punishment should be severe enough to outweigh the potenal benefits of the crime?
a)
Cesare Beccaria
b)
John Locke
c)
Montesquieu
d)
Thomas Hobbes
16.
An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection
a)
Philosophers
b)
Democracy
c)
Social Contract
d)
Divine Right of Kings
17.
Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness
a)
Natural Rights
b)
Democracy
c)
Anarchy
d)
Divine Right of Kings
18.
Who most likely wrote "Man is full of self-interest and governments are needed to keep order."
a)
Benjamin Franklin
b)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
c)
Thomas Hobbes
d)
John Locke
19.
Which idea can be attributed to Jean Jacques Rousseau?
a)
Separation of Church and State
b)
Majority rules
c)
Checks and Balances
d)
The Scientific Method
20.
Which of the following best relates to Voltaire?
a)
Right to bear arms
b)
Due process
c)
Freedom of speech
d)
Seperation of powers
21.
Scientist began questioning the teachings of the.......
a)
Roman Catholic Church
b)
Jewish Church
c)
God
d)
The Government
22.
Who created the geocentric theory?
a)
Issac Newton
b)
Ptolemy
c)
Copernicus
d)
Galileo
23.
Who created the heliocentric theory?
a)
Copernicus
b)
Galileo
c)
Ptolemy
d)
Kepler
24.
Was Copernicus Excomunicated?
a)
Yes
b)
No
25.
What did Galileo Improve?
a)
The astrolabe
b)
the stars
c)
The Telescope
d)
cat food.
26.
Who created the Scientific Method?
a)
Copernicus
b)
Kepler
c)
The Pope
d)
Francis Bacon
27.
What did the geocentric theory state?
a)
The sun was at the center of the universe
b)
The earth was at the center of the universe
28.
What is the heliocentric theory?
a)
There is no sun
b)
The sun is smaller than the Earth
c)
The sun is the center of the universe
d)
The Earth in the center of the universe
29.
What is the first step to the scientific method?
a)
Make a hypothesis
b)
State a question or problem
c)
Do the experiment
d)
Analyze the data
30.
Who developed the Law of Gravity and Motion?
a)
Sir Francis Bacon
b)
Issac Newton
c)
John Locke
d)
Ptolemy
31.
Scientist began using _____________ and _______________ instead of placing their beliefs in faith.
a)
History and faith
b)
Math and Science
c)
Math and History
d)
reason and logic
32.
Both Greek and Islamic scholars developed scientific ideas that later _______ European scholars.
a)
harmed
b)
confused
c)
influenced
d)
destroyed
33.
Copernicus did not what to publish his book on the heliocentric theory until after his death because he was afraid of persecution from the ______ Church
a)
Islamic
b)
Buddhist
c)
Catholic
d)
Protestant
34.
Bacon, Galileo, & Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on experimentation & ________.
a)
observation
b)
guessing
c)
research
d)
what your friends say
35.
The Scientific Revolution’s roots are based on Greek & Roman ideas, _______ astronomy, and Renaissance thinking.
a)
Muslim
b)
solar
c)
Chinese
d)
imaginary
36.
Isaac Newton- a mathematician during the Scientific Revolution- is best known for __.
a)
his geocentric theory
b)
the discovery of universal laws of motion
c)
the invention of the scientific method
d)
disproving the ideas of Kepler
37.
The scientific method used reason to study a topic. Which of the following is the first step in the scientific method?
a)
forming an hypothesis
b)
collecting data through observation
c)
stating a universal law
d)
conducting experiements
38.
During the Scientific Revolution the heliocentric view of the universe was first proposed by __.
a)
Ptolemy
b)
Francis Bacon
c)
Isaac Newton
d)
Nicolaus Copernicus
39.
The Scientific Revolution challenged many medieval ideas about science. All of the following were astronomers during the Scientific Revolution except __.
a)
Nicolaus Copernicus
b)
Ptolemy
c)
Galileo Galilei
d)
Johannes Kepler
40.
The idea that the earth is the center of the universe is the ___________ theory.
a)
geocentric
b)
heliocentric
c)
earthcentric
d)
world's worst
41.
The idea that the sun is the center of the universe is the ____________ theory.
a)
geocentric
b)
heliocentric
c)
solar
d)
sunny
42.
The Catholic Church defended the views of _________, Ptolemy and other Greek philosophers because the Church felt their theories about nature supported the traditional Biblical view.
a)
Al-Battani
b)
Aristotle
c)
Julius Caesar
d)
King Richard the Lionheart
43.
The Enlightenment was also known as the:
a)
Age of Questions
b)
Age of Knowledge
c)
Age of Reason
d)
Age of Revolutions
44.
The idea that reason is the source of truth and understanding is known as:
a)
Social Contract
b)
Capitalism
c)
Consent
d)
Rationalism
45.
Absolutism was an old idea that gave total and absolute power to a:
a)
Democracy
b)
Monarchy
c)
Dictatorship
d)
Oligarchy
46.
The divine right of kings stated that a king's power to rule came from:
a)
The people
b)
Parliament
c)
God
d)
The nobles
47.
Tsarina Catherine the Great built schools, hospitals, and promoted women's education. Historians categorize Catherine the Great as an:
a)
Enlightened Despot
b)
Bourgeoisie
c)
Capitalist
d)
Communist
48.
Enlightenment thinkers were also known as :
a)
Socialists
b)
Reformers
c)
Philosophes
d)
Radicals
49.
The act of an entire population giving up certain natural rights and transferring them to someone else is also known as a...
a)
Declaration of Independence
b)
Social Contract
c)
Rationalism
d)
Heliocentric Theory
50.
Copernicus' theory that the sun is the center of the universe is also known as..
a)
Geocentric Theory
b)
Law of Gravity
c)
Heliocentric Theory
d)
Law of Galileo
51.
The division of government responsibilities into multiple branches is also known as ..
a)
Popular Sovereignty
b)
Separation of Powers
c)
Social Contract
d)
Theocracy
52.
Scientist matching: He was the the first to discover that the sun was the center of the solar system, not the earth. He titled the new idea "Heliocentric Theory".
a)
Nicholas Copernicus
b)
Sir Issac Newton
c)
Galileo Galilei
d)
Johannes Kepler
53.
Scientist Matching: He improved upon the heliocentric theory through his discovery of elliptical (oval) planetary orbits around the sun.
a)
Copernicus
b)
Sir Isaac Newton
c)
Galileo Galilei
d)
Johannes Kepler
54.
Scientist Matching: He published a book on the Heliocentric Theory that the church viewed as inflammatory and heretical. This led to a forced confession and the sentence of a lifetime under house arrest.
a)
Copernicus
b)
Sir Isaac Newton
c)
Galileo Galilei
d)
Johannes Kepler
55.
Philosophe Matching: Author of The Spirit of Laws he believed in the separation of powers in order to avoid tyranny.
a)
Rousseau
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Hobbes
d)
Voltaire
56.
Philosophe Matching: French author of Candide, he fought for religious tolerance and freedom of speech. He had to leave France because of his writings.
a)
Montesquieu
b)
Voltaire
c)
Hobbes
d)
Locke
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