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Absolutism, Enlightenment, Scientific Rev

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is ABSOLUTISM?

a)

Dissolves substances in an experiment

b)

Terrorism

c)

When a ruler has absolute power

d)

Industrialization

2.

This French guy believed in separation of church and state, and religious tolerance

a)

Voltaire

b)

Locke

c)

Rousseau

d)

Montesquieu

3.

Who discovered planetary motion?

a)

Kepler

b)

Newton

c)

Harvey

d)

Locke

4.

Who wrote DON QUIXOTE?

a)

Locke

b)

Harvey

c)

Hobbes

d)

Cervantes

5.

John Locke would believe which of the statements below...

a)

People should not have any power (the state should)

b)

People have natural rights (life, liberty, property)

c)

People should have no government

d)

People have the ability to fly

6.

This Russian Czar was a big fan of Europe, so he Westernized the country

a)

Louis XIV

b)

Ivan the Terrible

c)

Peter the Great

d)

King Charles XII

7.

William Harvey discovered....

a)

planetary motion

b)

blood circulation

c)

the laws of gravity

d)

heliocentric theory

8.

Louis XIV, aka The Sun King, was ...

a)

an absolute monarch in Russia

b)

an absolute monarch in France

c)

an absolute monarch in Britain

d)

an absolute monarch in America

9.

King Louis XIV lived where?

a)

The Palace of Versailles

b)

The White House

c)

The Palace of Louis the Great

d)

St. Petersburg

10.

Who developed the heliocentric theory?

a)

Newton

b)

Kepler

c)

Copernicus

d)

Harvey

11.

This guy wrote Leviathan, and thought the state should have absolute power

a)

Voltaire

b)

Rousseau

c)

Hobbes

d)

Locke

12.

This poor guy spent 22 years under house arrest because his TELESCOPE was used to support the heliocentric theory

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Johnannes Kepler

c)

William Harvey

d)

Galileo Galilei

13.

Out of the following people, who is a painter?

a)

Cervantes

b)

Delacroix

c)

Mozart

d)

Bach

14.

Who was a Baroque composer?

a)

Bach

b)

Mozart

c)

Cervantes

d)

Delacroix

15.

Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws and believed in separation of powers?

a)

Hobbes

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Mozart

d)

Kepler

16.

Rousseau believed that the government should be a CONTRACT between rulers and the people. What did he write?

a)

The Separation of Powers

b)

Two Treatises on Government

c)

The Social Contract

d)

The Spirit of the Laws

17.

Who was an Austrian, classical composer?

a)

Mozart

b)

Bach

c)

Kepler

d)

Newton

18.

St. Petersburg was home to whom?

a)

Louis XIV

b)

George Washington

c)

Sir Isaac Newton

d)

Peter the Great

19.

BONUS: During the Enlightenment, people believed human knowledge was possible through scientific knowledge and _________

a)

SENSE

b)

WAR

c)

REASON

d)

CHURCH