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Enlightenment & The Great Awakening

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During the time of the Great Awakening, women were permitted to _____ during church meetings.

a)

vote

b)

lead

c)

marry

2.

During the Great Awakening, both African Americans & _______________ converted to become Protestant.

a)

indentured servants

b)

Native Americans

c)

Europeans

3.

The Great Awakening had a big impact on women, African Americans & Native Americans.

a)

true

b)

false

4.

During the time of the Great Awakening, colleges were started to train people to become ____________.

a)

ministers

b)

professionals

c)

doctors

5.

Wherever George Whitefield went and preached, he caused the church membership to ____________.

a)

decrease

b)

increase

c)

end

6.

The Great Awakening's evangelist preachers caused people to "feel" and to show a lot of ____________.

a)

pain

b)

anger

c)

emotion

7.

Two popular evangelists during the Great Awakening were Jon Edwards and _____________.

a)

John Locke

b)

George Whitefield

c)

Ben Franklin

8.

The Great Awakeing focused on people's _____________.

a)

problems

b)

goodness

c)

sins

9.

Both the Enlightenment ideas and the Great Awakening movement came to America from _______________.

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Europe

10.

Believed that the creator of the universe (God), didn't interfere with life; natural laws made things happen.

a)

deist

b)

Protestant

c)

revivalist

11.

Ben Franklin considered himself a ___________.

a)

Revivalist

b)

Protestant

c)

deist

12.

Ben Franklin started a group of like-minded thinkers called the ___________.

a)

Jacobs

b)

Geronimo

c)

Junto

13.

This Enlightenment thinker believed in democracy, and some of his ideas are used in our government today.

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Hobbs

c)

Baron de Montesqueue

14.

This Enlightenment thinker developed the idea of creating three branches of government.

a)

Rousseau

b)

Montesqueue

c)

Voltaire

15.

He wrote the book "Leviathan," and believed people needed a harsh government to keep them in line.

a)

Locke

b)

Rousseau

c)

Hobbs

16.

The Enlightenment thinker who believed in the idea of the separation of church and state.

a)

Voltaire

b)

Montesqueue

c)

Locke

17.

Enlightenment thinker who believed the people's natural rights should be protected by the government.

a)

Locke

b)

Hobbs

c)

Galileo

18.

The philosopher who believed in a social contract between the people and the government.

a)

Rousseau

b)

Locke

c)

Hobbs

19.

Refers to a period where society looked to science and reason to understand how the world works.

a)

Great Awakening

b)

Age of Discovery

c)

Enlightenment

20.

The original focus or purpose of college during the Great Awakening.

a)

teach children to read & write

b)

train ministers

c)

prepare people to work

21.

What was awakened during the Great Awakening?

a)

patriotism

b)

religious beliefs

c)

tensions between the rich and poor

22.

Inventor of the Theory of Gravity and the Laws of Motion.

a)

Ben Franklin

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Isaac Newton

23.

Proved that the earth reveloves around the sun.

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

John Locke

c)

Copernicus

24.

Preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," and used imagery to move people to salvation.

a)

George Whitefield

b)

Jonathan Edwards

c)

John Locke

25.

The Great Awakening minister who sometimes created so much emotion that people would cry and repent of their sins.

a)

George Whitefield

b)

Jonathan Edwards

c)

Ben Franklin

26.

Which of the following is a result of the Great Awakening?

a)

concern for the poor

b)

less effective (poor) ministers

c)

decline in church membership