WorksheetsRevolution Quiz (Enlightenment Age)
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
1) Which statement best describes the differing views held by Adam Smith and Karl Marx about physical capital?
a)
Smith believed that physical capital should be inherited
b)
Smith believed that individuals should own physical capital
c)
Smith believed that the government should own physical capital.
d)
Smith believed that the ownership of physical capital hinders progress
2.
The French Revolution was inspired by _______________ thinkers.
a)
Scientific Revolution
b)
Clergy
c)
Enlightenment
d)
Revolutionary
3.
Which estate paid ALL of the taxes in France prior to the French Revolution?
a)
1st Estate
b)
2nd Estate
c)
3rd Estate
4.
Which estate had the highest percentage of the population?
a)
1st estate
b)
2nd Estate
c)
3rd Estate
5.
This device was used to execute thousands of people during the period known as the Reign of Terror.
a)
guillotine
b)
astrolabe
c)
gallows
d)
Bastille
6.
Who were the bourgeoisie?
a)
The middle class
b)
The 1st Estate
c)
The peasants
d)
The nobles
7.
Which of the following was a reason why France was nearly bankrupt?
a)
The king lowered taxes
b)
The king took their money to create jobs
c)
The king spent the taxes on wars and himself
d)
They had fought against the Americans in the revolution
8.
What did the National Assembly promise to do in the Tennis Court Oath?
a)
To execute the king
b)
To write a new constitution
c)
To stage a Coup d'etat
d)
To make France independent
9.
Ruler who tried to apply Enlightened ideas to their ruler
a)
Enlightened Absolutism
b)
Constitutional Monarchy
c)
Democracy
d)
Enlightened Monarchy
10.
Belief that the state should not impose regulations but leave the economy alone
a)
Free Enterprise
b)
Laissez-faire
c)
Communism
d)
Capitalism
11.
What reasoning did Mary Wollstonecraft present for giving women equal rights?
a)
arbitrary power is wrong and women have the ability to reason
b)
women have the ability to reason and read
c)
women have natural rights and are intellectual
d)
women are more intellectual and emotional
12.
Beccaria did not support ____________.
a)
education
b)
establishment of government
c)
capital punishment
d)
laws to control social order
13.
Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are _______________.
a)
pure and innocent
b)
selfish and wicked
14.
Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Rousseau
c)
Wollstonecraft
d)
Hobbes
15.
Who believed in a social contract between the people and the government in which people gave up some freedom in order to have their rights protected?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Rousseau
d)
Hobbes
16.
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
a)
John Adams
b)
George Washington
c)
Thomas Paine
d)
Thomas Jefferson
17.
This revolutionary led Haiti to freedom from France
a)
Simon Bolivar
b)
Toussaint L'Ouverture
c)
Padre Hidalgo
18.
This class of people was at the top of the social hierarchy in Latin America
a)
Peninsulares
b)
Mulattos
c)
Proletariat
19.
What country did Chile, Argentina and Mexico break away from?
a)
France
b)
Spain
c)
Portugal
d)
Germany
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