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Enlightenment & Revolution

Total questions: 54

Worksheet time: 33mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which Enlightenment thinker had the concept that all men have natural rights (life, liberty, property)? This thinker also inspired the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.

a)

John Locke

b)

Charles Montesquieu

c)

Thomas Hobbes

d)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2.

What was the central theme that Enlightenment thinkers were writing about?

a)

Divine Right Theory

b)

Debating taxation

c)

Relationship between people and government

d)

Increasing the power of the Church

3.

What is the social contract theory?

a)

People should give up some freedoms so that as a group, everyone is cared for

b)

People should abstain from following any system of Government

c)

All men were born equal with natural rights: life, liberty, property

d)

Government should not be controlled by religion

4.

Of the following enlightenment thinkers, who developed the idea for the social contract?

a)

Charles Montesquieu

b)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

c)

Voltaire

d)

John Locke

5.

Life, liberty, and property are also known as?

a)

Unalienable Rights

b)

Essential Rights

c)

Natural Rights

d)

Original Rights

6.
Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.
a)
John Locke
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Rousseau
d)
Voltaire
7.
Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.
a)
True
b)
False
8.

What concept below would the Enlightenment philosophers be most likely to agree upon?

a)

Government should be dictated by the Divine Right Theory

b)

Citizens should never be involved in how the Government is ran

c)

People should get to choose how the government controls them

d)

There should be no separation between Church and Government

9.

What was the main reason the American colonists wanted freedom from Great Britain?

a)

They wanted their own Monarch

b)

Taxation without representation

c)

They never wanted to be free from Great Britain, Great Britain wanted rid of the colonies

d)

Great Britain wanted to end slavery

10.

Many Enlightenment thinkers had strong beliefs about:

a)

The role of government

b)

Scientific method

c)

Industrial growth

d)

Increase of wealth

11.

Who inspired the Declaration of Independence, & who authored it?

a)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

b)

Montesquieu & John Adams

c)

Louis XVI & George III

d)

John Locke & Thomas Jefferson

12.

What is Enlightenment?

a)

Eloquently stating your opinion

b)

A time period of reason and logic about how government should work

c)

A rebirth of Art and Science

d)

A time period of rebuilding social structure

13.

model for government in which divided into branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that the powers of one branch are not in conflict with the powers associated with the other branches.

a)

Absolute Monarch

b)

Tyranny

c)

Separation of Powers

d)

Social Contract

14.

Locke and other Enlightenment followers believe that the purpose of government was to...

a)

Dictate ones life and ensure no freedoms

b)

To make laws and protect the peoples rights and freedoms

c)

To not exist at all

d)

Jail everyone who practiced freedom of speech

15.

Which of the following would not agree with Enlightenment ideas?

a)

African Slaves

b)

Common Citizens

c)

Women

d)

Absolute Monarchs

16.

What is Checks and balances in government?

a)

That one branch receives all the power

b)

That the government works on everything together

c)

Each branch ensures that not all power is going to one person

d)

A giant tree in the white house

17.

Which one of the following were effects of the Enlightenment Movement?

a)

women’s rights movements

b)

started Abolition movement (led to the end of the slave trade)

c)

Absolute Monarchs gained more power around the world

d)

Outbreak of political revolutions

18.

Which thinker was most concerned with religious toleration?

a)

Voltaire

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Wollstonecraft

d)

Descartes

19.

Which thinker believed the best form of government was an absolute monarchy?

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbes

c)

Rousseau

d)

Voltaire

20.

Enlightenment philosopher who believed in freedom of speech and freedom of religion

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbes

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Voltaire

21.

The idea that government power comes from the people.

a)

natural rights

b)

social contract

c)

popular sovereignty

d)

salons

22.

This philosopher believed in a direct democracy.

a)

Locke

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Rousseau

d)

Voltaire

23.

This French philosophe helped spread ideas of the Enlightenment with the Encyclopedia.

a)

Rousseau

b)

Diderot

c)

Voltaire

d)

Hobbes

24.

Enlightenment ideas influenced American colonists to challenge British authority.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Frederick II, Joseph II, and Catherine the Great were known as

a)

philosophers

b)

despots

c)

enlightened despots

d)

neoclassical

26.

A "break up" letter to King George III of England from the American colonists.

a)

Bill of Rights

b)

US Constitution

c)

Declaration of Independence

d)

Ten Commandments

27.

This philosopher believed in justice, including speedy trials and abolishment of torture.

a)

Voltaire

b)

Locke

c)

Rousseau

d)

Beccaria

28.

A new way of thinking based on the observation of the natural world and the questioning of old ideas.

a)

scientific revolution

b)

geocentric theory

c)

catholic church

d)

social contract

29.

An intellectual movement focused on reason and thought.

a)

natural rights

b)

baroque

c)

Enlightenment

d)

neoclassical

30.

This philosopher believed in a strong monarchy because people could not be trusted.

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbes

c)

Voltaire

d)

Mr. Salguero

31.

Which is NOT true about the legacy of the Enlightenment?

a)

destroyed freedom

b)

inspired the American Revolution

c)

questioned the church

d)

focused on individual rights

32.

The belief that the sun is the center of the universe.

a)

heliocentric

b)

geocentric

c)

natural rights

d)

social contract

33.

This philosopher believed in education and jobs for women.

a)

Locke

b)

Wollstonecraft

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Hobbes

34.

At these places in Paris, philosophers and other artists discussed ideas of the Enlightenment.

a)

baroque

b)

neoclassical

c)

enlightened despots

d)

salons

35.
Copernicus was the first modern scientist to think...
a)
The universe is geocentric.
b)
Gravity causes things to fall at the same rate.
c)
The earth is the center of the universe.
d)
The sun is the center of the universe.
36.
Galileo was brought before the Church and charged with heresy because...
a)
He published a book agreeing with the heliocentric theory.
b)
He criticized the Pope because he wanted a divorce.
c)
He wanted to marry an English princess.
d)
He published a book about humanism. 
37.
Isaac Newton studied 3 branches of SCIENCE:
a)
Legislative, executive, and judicial
b)
Church, school, factories
c)
Physics, gravity, motion
d)
Calculus, physics, and government
38.
Why did the Roman Catholic Church take so long to embrace the heliocentric theory?
a)
Jesus walked the Earth; therefore Earth must be the most important and at the center.
b)
Ptolemy was a famous priest who donated a lot of money to the Church.
c)
Catholic leaders did not want people questioning what was true because it may lead to people questioning the Church. 
d)
They were angry at Galileo and never wanted to admit he was correct. 
39.
Sir Francis Bacon developed the idea that things could be proven through observation.  What was this called? 
a)
Scientific Method
b)
Divine Right of Kings
c)
Geocentric view of the universe
d)
Humanism
40.
A French philosopher who is considered the father of modern philosophy; "I think therefore I am."
a)
John Locke
b)
Rene Descartes
c)
Adam Smith
d)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
41.
What was the series of events that led to the birth of modern science known as? 
a)
Enlightenment 
b)
Scientific Revolution
c)
Renaissance
d)
Scientific Method
42.
What is the step-by-step process for performing scientific research?
a)
Scientific Revolution
b)
Newton's Law of Motion
c)
Scientific Method
d)
Heliocentric Theory
43.
Which of the following was not an important invention of the Scientific Revolution?
a)
Microscope
b)
Telescope
c)
Barometer
d)
Tachometer
44.
What place was the center of the Enlightenment?
a)
Italy 
b)
England 
c)
France 
d)
Spain
45.
The idea that the earth is the center of the universe is called
a)
heliocentricity
b)
planetary alignment
c)
geocentric
d)
cell theory 
46.
During the Scientific Revolution, European scientists focused their work on explaining
a)
how government affects the individual.
b)
Life
c)
advanced chemistry
d)
the workings of the natural world
47.
Before the scientific revolution the people believed kings got there power to rule
a)
from Congress / Parliament
b)
from the people (democratic elections)
c)
from the worldwide web
d)
from God (divine right)
48.
Until the Scientific Revolution, the traditional authorities were
a)
the Catholic Church and ancient scholars
b)
Muslim scribes
c)
navigators and explorers
d)
Confuscious and Ghandi
49.
Which is the last step of the scientific method?
a)
hypothesis
b)
conclusion
c)
problem
d)
experiment 
50.
Thomas Hobbes wrote this book about the structure of society and governments.
a)
Santa Maria
b)
Leviathan
c)
The Old Man and the Sea
d)
Carterican
51.
This Enlightenment thinker believed that we are all good and pure until we are corrupted by society.
a)
Thomas Hobbes
b)
Galileo
c)
John Locke
d)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
52.
Which Enlightenment thinker said "If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"
a)
Mary Wollstonecraft
b)
Mike Jones
c)
Tommy Hobbes
d)
Thomas Jefferson
53.
Thomas Hobbes believed that
a)
the enlightenment thinkers were naturally silly
b)
people are naturally greedy and selfish therefore should only be governed by an absolute monarch (king).
c)
people are for the most part good people but society corrupts us to be bad
d)
in the tabula rasa theory
54.
What is the French word for philosopher?
a)
A. philosophe
b)
B. natural rights
c)
C. separation of power
d)
D. checks and balances

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