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T6, L4-5 Review

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed in ___?___, an agreement where people give up their freedom to a powerful government to avoid chaos

a)

natural rights

b)

laissez faire

c)

social contract

d)

natural law

2.

What is a French Enlightenment thinker who desired reform in society during the Enlightenment?

a)

Laissez Faire

b)

rococo

c)

Philosophe

d)

Baroque

3.

Where could people spread and exchange Enlightenment ideas with each other?

a)

salons

b)

baroque

c)

rococo

d)

despots

4.

What does it mean to restrict access to ideas and information?

a)

social contract

b)

salons

c)

rococo

d)

censorship

5.

What is the elegant style of art made popular during the mid-1700’s that featured light and charming designs in the shapes of leaves, shells, and flowers?

a)

baroque

b)

rococo

c)

despots

d)

salons

6.

What is allowing business to operate with little to no government interference?

a)

natural rights

b)

laissez-faire

c)

social contract

d)

natural law

7.

What is an absolute ruler who used his/her power to help bring about political & social change, like Frederick or Catherine the Great?

a)

baroque monarch

b)

rococo monarch

c)

enlightened despots

d)

salons

8.

What type of government was created by the U.S. Constitution?

a)

federal republic

b)

popular socereignty

c)

enlightened despot

d)

absolute monarchy

9.

What is the basic principle that asserts that the people are the source of any and all governmental power & the government can exist only with the consent of the people?

a)

federal republic

b)

popular sovereignty

c)

enlightened despots

d)

absolute monarchy

10.

Who believed in the separation of powers and checks & balances?

a)

Locke

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Hobbes

d)

Rousseau

11.

Who believed that everyone deserved the natural rights of life, liberty, and property; he also rejected absolute monarchies?

a)

Locke

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Hobbes

d)

Rousseau

12.

Who created a 28-volume encyclopedia to explain new ideas?

a)

Smith

b)

Diderot

c)

Franklin

d)

Wollstonecraft

13.

Who wrote the book The Wealth of Nations and believed free market should regulate business?

a)

Smith

b)

Diderot

c)

Franklin

d)

Wollstonecraft

14.

How did the Scientific Revolution lead to the Enlightenment?

a)

it gave monarchs more power

b)

it helped factories to grow larger & factory owners to become rich

c)

it encouraged people to use reason & scientific method to understand issues

d)

it extended the natural rights of European citizens

15.

Which statement best describes the ideas of Hobbes & Locke?

a)

H believed people are brutish; L believed people were reasonable & moral

b)

L believed people are brutish; H believed people were reasonable & moral

c)

H believed a democratic government was good; L believed it was bad

d)

L believed absolute monarchs were good; H believed they were bad

16.

Which statement best summaries the difference between baroque & rococo art?

a)

Rococo glorifies battles; Baroque focuses on rural settings

b)

Rococo praises religious leaders; baroque praises monarchs

c)

Baroque is grand & complex; rococo is light & charming

d)

Rococo is grand & complex; Baroque is light & charming

17.

What literary form developed during the Enlightenment era?

a)

the novel

b)

the epic poem

c)

the short story

d)

the lyric poem

18.

What 2 Enlightenment ideas are found in the Declaration of Independence?

a)

checks & balances

b)

natural rights & popular sovereignty

c)

laissez-faire & free market

d)

baroque & rococo

19.

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

George Washington

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

James Madison

20.

Why is the year 1776 considered the United States' birthday?

a)

the colonists defeated the British

b)

the Declaration of Independence was adopted

c)

the Constitution was written

d)

the Treaty of Paris was ratified

21.

What idea of Montesquieu influenced the U.S. Constitution

a)

social contract

b)

freedom of the press

c)

separation of powers

d)

federal republic

22.

How did France help the Americans win the Revolution?

a)

gave them gold to buy supplies

b)

the French naval fleet joined the battle

c)

gave them Indians to fight in the woods

d)

the French army fought the Indians

23.

A group called __?__ wanted to "purify" the Church of England of Catholic practices.

a)

Puritans

b)

Roundheads

c)

Cavaliers

d)

Boyars

24.

In a __?__, power is defined and limited by law.

a)

oligarchy

b)

constitutional government

c)

absolute monarchy

d)

autocratic monarchy

25.

What is a limited government, whose power comes from the people, based on the separation of powers & a system of checks and balances?

a)

laissez-faire

b)

free market

c)

social contract

d)

popular sovereignty

26.

Who were the philosophes?

a)

French Enlightenment Thinkers

b)

Dutch Enlightenment Thinkers

c)

Enlightened Despots

d)

Absolute Monarchs

27.

What policy of natural laws did Adam Smith urge governments to use?

a)

democratic

b)

autocratic

c)

laissez faire

d)

divine right

28.

How did most government & church authorities try to stop the spread of Enlightenment ideas?

a)

censorship

b)

divine right

c)

checks and balances

d)

popular sovereignty

29.

What affect did Enlightenment ideas have on literature?

a)

the rise of the poem

b)

the rise of the novel

c)

the use of rococo

d)

the use of baroque

30.

Which act was the tax that really angered the colonist?

a)

Sugar

b)

Stamp

c)

Townsend

d)

Declaratory

31.

Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?

a)

George Washington

b)

Ben Franklin

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

John Jay

32.

By 1789, what kind of government did the leaders of the new United States had establish?

a)

parliamentary republic

b)

constitutional monarchy

c)

absolute monarchy

d)

federal republic

33.

What caused tensions to rise between the colonist and Britain?

a)

the Continental Congress

b)

the rise in taxes

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

separation of powers

34.

What part of the Constitution protects citizen's basic rights?

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

Article 1

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Article 3

35.

What is a limited government based on the separation of powers & a system of checks and balances?

a)

laissez faire

b)

natural rights

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

free enterprise system

36.

Thomas Jefferson used this Enlightenment idea from Locke when writing the Declaration of Independence?

a)

natural rights

b)

free market

c)

laissez-faire

d)

social contract

37.

In 1783, American, British, and French diplomats signed the this document ending the American Revolutionary War...

a)

Stamp Act of 1765

b)

Treaty of Paris 1783

c)

Treaty of Paris 1776

d)

Treaty of America 1776

38.

Why did colonists protest that they should not be taxed?

a)

because the prices were too high for those items

b)

because England didn't have to pay them

c)

because they had no representation Parliament

d)

because it was unfair

39.

What event is said to be the start of the American Revolution?

a)

battle of Lexington and Concord

b)

the Tea Act

c)

the Boston Tea Party

d)

the Boston Massacre

40.

What was the ornate style of art & architecture popular in the 1600s & 1700s?

a)

rococo

b)

laissez-faire

c)

despot

d)

baroque

41.

What is the restriction on access to ideas and information?

a)

checks and balances

b)

censorship

c)

free enterprise

d)

laissez-faire

42.

What Enlightenment idea from Montesquieu did the founding fathers use in the Constitution?

a)

free enterprise

b)

free market

c)

laissez-faire

d)

checks and balances

43.

What is a French Enlightenment thinker?

a)

philosophe

b)

laissex-faire

c)

rococo

d)

despot

44.

This is an elegant style of art & architecture made popular in the mid-1700s that featured designs with the shapes of leaves, shells, & flowers...

a)

laissez-faire

b)

despot

c)

rococo

d)

gothic

45.

What is an agreement by which people give up some freedom to government in order to have an organized society?

a)

social contract

b)

laissez-faire

c)

free market system

d)

federal republic

46.

How did the Scientific Revolution lead to the Enlightenment and change the way people looked at the world?

a)

introduced reason and scientific method

b)

introduced reason and oligarchy

c)

introduced predestination and humanism

d)

introduced indulgences and vernacular

47.

What part of the Constitution protects citizens basic rights?

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

Preamble

c)

Article 2

d)

Amendment 13

48.

What policy of natural laws did Adam Smith urge governments to use to regulate a free market with little or no government interference?

a)

checks & balances

b)

rococo

c)

baroque

d)

laissez-fare