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22 people of the enlightenment

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Rousseau
c)
Wollstonecraft
d)
Hobbes
2.
What was the name of the British king during the American Revolution?
a)
Charles III
b)
George III
c)
William III
d)
James III
3.

invented the microscope

a)

Zacharias Janssen

b)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

d)

Robert Boyle

4.

used microscope to see bacteria and blood cells

a)

William Harvey

b)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

c)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

d)

Edward Jenner

5.

invented mercury barometer

a)

Zacharias Janssen

b)

Francis Bacon

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Evangelista Torricelli

6.

invented thermometer

a)

Zacharias Janssen

b)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

d)

Evangelista Torricelli

7.

said humans and pigs don't have same anatomy

a)

Andreas Vesalius

b)

Edward Jenner

c)

Nicolaus Copernicus

d)

Johannes Kepler

8.

Heart pumps the blood

a)

Zacharias Janssen

b)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

c)

William Harvey

d)

Robert Boyle

9.

developed a vaccine for smallpox

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Edward Jenner

c)

Rene Descartes

d)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

10.

founder of modern chemistry

a)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

b)

Chad

c)

Zacharias Janssen

d)

Robert Boyle

11.

On the Fabric of the Human Body

a)

Andreas Vesalius

b)

Zacharias Janssen

c)

Evangelista Torricelli

d)

Edward Jenner

12.

Law of Universal Gravitation

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

c)

Rene Descartes

d)

Isaac Newton

13.

published Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

a)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

William Harvey

d)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

14.

developed scientific method

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Edward Jenner

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Rene Descartes

15.

developed analytical geometry

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Rene Descartes

d)

Galileo Galilei

16.

“I think, therefore I am.”

a)

Rene Descartes

b)

Francis Bacon

c)

Nicolaus Copernicus

d)

Johannes Kepler

17.

planets moved in elliptical orbits

a)

Nicolaus Copernicus

b)

Johannes Kepler

c)

Noah

d)

Galileo Galilei

18.

developed the heliocentric theory

a)

Nicolaus Copernicus

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Louis XIV

d)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

19.

On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies

a)

Johannes Kepler

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

Nicolaus Copernicus

d)

Francis Bacon

20.

law of pendulum, falling objects at predictable rates, 1609 invented a telescope to observe the stars

a)

Nicolaus Copernicus

b)

Rene Descartes

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Galileo Galilei

21.

Starry Messenger & Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Zacharias Janssen

c)

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

d)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

22.

Social Contract: people give up rights to a strong ruler

a)

John Locke

b)

Voltaire

c)

Thomas Hobbes

d)

Mary Wollstonecraft

23.

wrote Leviathan

a)

Montesquieu

b)

John Locke

c)

Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

d)

Thomas Hobbes

24.

learn from experience and improve

a)

Montesquieu

b)

John Locke

c)

Nicolaus Copernicus

d)

Mary Wollstonecraft

25.

Natural rights: life, liberty, and property

a)

Johannes Kepler

b)

Nicolaus Copernicus

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

John Locke

26.

70 books of political essays, philosophy, history, fiction, and drama

a)

Montesquieu

b)

Voltaire

c)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

d)

Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

27.

He is rumored to have drank as many as 40 cups of coffee a day, which would explain his ability to write as many as 18 hours a day.

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Rene Descartes

d)

Voltaire

28.

Separation of powers: division of power among branches of government

a)

Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

b)

Montesquieu

c)

William Harvey

d)

Evangelista Torricelli

29.

committed to individual freedom

a)

Robert Boyle

b)

Voltaire

c)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

d)

Philosophes

30.

laws are to maintain social order not revenge

a)

Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

b)

John Locke

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Thomas Hobbes

31.

Vindication of the Rights of Woman

a)

Zacharias Janssen

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Mary Wollstonecraft

d)

Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

32.

most influential Salon owner

a)

Marie-Therese Geoffrin

b)

Evangelista Torricelli

c)

John Locke

d)

Denis Diderot

33.

Encyclopedia, originally to bring all the Enlightenment ideas together in 1 book

a)

Denis Diderot

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

d)

Edward Jenner

34.

called himself “the first servant of the state”

a)

Joseph II of Austria

b)

John Locke

c)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

d)

Frederick the Great

35.

introduced legal reforms, freedom of the press & religion in Austria

a)

Joseph II of Austria

b)

Zacharias Janssen

c)

Jean Jacques Rousseau

d)

Catherine the Great

36.

wrote the Declaration based on John Locke ideas

a)

Edward Jenner

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Chad

d)

Frederick the Great

37.

French Monarch of the Revolutionary War

a)

Louis XVI

b)

Louis XIV

c)

John Locke

d)

Catherine the Great

38.

Leader of the British army in the Colonies

a)

Louis XVI

b)

Gabriel Fahrenheit

c)

Lord Cornwallis

d)

Cesare Bonesana Beccaria