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enlightenment period

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the king of Prussia(Germany)

a)

Locke

b)

Rousseau

c)

Fredrick the great

d)

Voltaire

2.

said "I think therefore I am"

a)

Rene' Descartes

b)

Beccaria

3.

Was William Harvey the first person to discover blood vessels

a)

Yes

b)

No

4.

published a book called starry messenger

a)

Galileo

b)

Nicolas Copernicus

c)

Francis Bacon

5.

ISSAC Newton wrote a book

a)

Yes

b)

No

6.

Francis Bacon invented the

a)

Telescope

b)

Telephone

c)

Scientific method

d)

Television

7.

ISSAC Newton was born on

a)

1/4/1643

b)

3/23/1834

c)

8/30/1599

8.

Was ISSAC Newton a Deist

a)

Yes

b)

No

9.

who challenged Ptolemy's idea that the was the center of the universe

a)

Copernicus

b)

John Locke

c)

Mary Wollstonecraft

d)

Mary Astell

10.

William Harvey was a __________

a)

Doctor

b)

Scientist

c)

Astronomer

11.

Fredrik the great was an Enlightened despot

a)

yes

b)

no

12.

what book did Rousseau

a)

Leviathan

b)

Spirit of the laws

c)

Encyclopedia

d)

wealth of nations

13.

wo died on 10/24/1704

a)

Locke

b)

Voltaire

c)

Montesqiue

14.

who discovered the solar system

a)

Copernicus

b)

Galileo

c)

Ptolemy

15.

Montesqiue was a ______

a)

Lawyer

b)

Astronomer

c)

Doctor

16.

believed in division of labor

a)

Adam Smith

b)

Voltaire

c)

Rousseau

17.

Female Philosopher

a)

Mary Wollstonecraft

b)

Voltaire

18.
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
19.
The Age of Enlightenment began
a)
Before Exploration
b)
During Prehistoric Times
c)
After the American Revolution
d)
In the 17th Century
20.
The Scientific Revolution can best be described as:
a)
A period when scientists embraced the teachings of the Church
b)
The time when the Catholic Church empathized most with scientists 
c)
period when scientists began to question the old teachings of the Church
d)
 Scientific property invented by astrophysicists to explain the rotation of the Earth
21.
The procedure for testing theories that starts with a question
a)
Methods of Operation
b)
Scientific Method
c)
Procedural Operations
d)
Steps in a process 
22.
Because he feared the Church, what Polish astronomer waited to publish his heliocentric theory until he was near death?
a)
Johannes Kepler
b)
Nicolaus Copernicus 
c)
Isaac Newton 
d)
Francis Bacon 
23.
This diagram is representative of which theory that was supported by the Catholic Church? 
a)
Geocentric 
b)
Concentric
c)
Heliocentric 
d)
Geothermantic
24.
Sir Isaac Newton is associated with the Laws of:
a)
Electricity
b)
Motion and gravity
c)
Human biology
d)
Astronomy 
25.
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 
26.
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

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