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Enlightenment and Great Awakening

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?
a)
power and privilege
b)
money and fame
c)
good looks and charm
d)
reason and logic
2.
Sir Isaac Newton is associated with the Laws of:
a)
Electricity
b)
Motion and gravity
c)
Human biology
d)
Astronomy 
3.
Which astronomer was tried for heresy and placed under house arrest because he argued that the universe was heliocentric?
a)
Ptolemy
b)
Copernicus
c)
Newton 
d)
Galileo 
4.
Which of the following best explains the effect of the Scientific Revolution on traditional religious beliefs?
a)
People now looked to religion to explain the world around them.
b)
People now looked to their kings to explain the world around them.
c)
People used reason and logic to explain the world
d)
Momney makes the world go round
5.
Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries? 
a)
English monarchs
b)
The President of the United States
c)
The Catholic Church
d)
Silk Road merchants
6.

_________________ influenced the Declaration of Independence and the English Bill of Rights.

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Voltaire

7.

Created the first Encyclopedia

a)

Hobbes

b)

Rousseau

c)

Thomas Aquinas

d)

Diderot

8.

Which statement best describes the beliefs of the Enlightenment thinkers?

a)

Absolute monarchs would govern wisely and fairly

b)

Science and reason could improve people's live

c)

Religion alone could answer all the questions about life

d)

Ancient Greeks and Romans knew all there was to know

9.

The Great Awakening was a __________ movement.

a)

political

b)

scientific

c)

religious

d)

artistic

10.

Ministers of The Great Awakening preached ___________

a)

God was angry

b)

people were not equal

c)

colonists should not be independent

d)

colonists could be saved

11.

Religious meetings drew

a)

no crowds

b)

small crowds

c)

medium crowds

d)

large crowds

12.
Called on people to examine their lives and commit themselves to God
a)
Anne Bradstreet
b)
Jonathan Edwards
c)
Benjamin Fraklin
d)
Phillis Wheatley
13.
George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards gave sermons about
a)
the existence of many gods.
b)
helplessness and sinfulness of humankind.
c)
importance of government.
d)
importance of other religions.
14.
Which concept from the European Enlightenment was included in the United States Constitution.
a)
consent of the governed
b)
despotism
c)
absolutism
d)
limited monarchy
15.
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
16.
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
17.
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

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