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WorksheetsEnlightenment and Age of Reason
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?
natural right
natural law
social contract
divine right
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal
property rights
education
voting rights
employment opportunities
Laissez faire is when the government operates with
little trade regulation
tariffs
mercantilism
a lot of trade regulation
Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they
wrote fiction
challenged the old order
supported traditional ideas
wrote in salons
Which enlightenment despot traveled among the peasants in disguise to learn about their problems?
Catherine the Great
Maria Theresa
Frederick the Great
Joseph II
Vocab word meaning restricting access to ideas and information
salon
baroque
censorship
rococo
The Enlightenment encouraged women to take a stronger role in society by
allowing women to become rulers of their countries.
giving them jobs in factories.
organizing salons in their homes where people could speak freely.
by giving natural rights to every citizen including women and children.
A literary form that developed during the Enlightenment was
the epic poem
the novel
the short story
the lyric poem
Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the
Reformation
Glorious Revolution
Renaissance
Scientific Revolution.
The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Rousseau
Diderot
Diderot's Encyclopedia was important because it
compiled classical Greek and Roman works.
spread Enlightenment ideas.
was the first publication printed with moveable type.
was the first publication to include articles by women.
Economist Adam Smith argued that, in a free market, business activity would be regulated by the forces of
wages and price
savings and investment
supply and demand
manufacturing and trade
What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights (life, liberty, and property) of the people?
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
René Descartes
John Locke
Influential opponents of the Enlightenment included
enlightened despots
the American and French colonies
church authorities
Defoe and Hayden
Enlightenment writers sometimes tried to avoid censorship by
writing in Latin.
putting false covers on their books.
disguising their ideas as fiction.
supporting a strict class system.
An Enlightened despot was a ruler who
The old order respects Roman tradition.
allowed limited voting rights.
gained stronger absolute power.
brought about political and social change.
A Russian despot that studied the philosophies and embraced enlightenment ideas
Frederick the Great.
James I
Joseph II.
Catherine the Great.
The philosophe who used sarcasm to expose government abuse was
de Stael
Montesquieu
Diderot
Voltaire
Elegant compositions by Handel, Haydn, and Mozart reflected a new musical style of the Enlightenment known as
baroque.
classical.
rococo.
romantic.
According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is
a federal republic.
a theocracy.
absolute monarchy.
a democracy.
