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The Enlightenment ESL

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Enlightenment is a new way _________________ in Europe.

a)

Making Laws

b)

Ruling a Country

c)

Thinking

d)

Drawing

2.

Before the enlightenment many European nations believed in _____________.

a)

Democracy

b)

Theocracy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Anarchy

3.

What Enlightenment thinker thought of the idea of “Rights of the Accused?”

a)

Cesare Beccaria

b)

John Locke

c)

Voltaire

d)

Rousseau

4.

Mary Wollstonecraft focused on what Enlightenment idea?

a)

Central Government

b)

Gender Equality

c)

Natural Rights

d)

Freedom of Speech

5.

Our Natural Rights are...

a)

Life, food, and money

b)

Life, food, and church

c)

Life, Property, and Church

d)

Life, Liberty, and Property

6.

The Definition of Rationalism is…

a)

Thinking, understanding, and making judgments using logic

b)

Humans and their accomplishments and rights are important

c)

Belief that the king has the right to rules over others by God

d)

Using reason to understand and improve the world

7.

What was Thomas Hobbes enlightenment idea?

a)

Natural Rights

b)

Central Government

c)

Gender Equality

d)

Separation of Powers

8.

Voltaire focused on two enlightenment ideas, what were they?

a)

Gender Equality and Freedom of Speech

b)

Freedom of Speech and Separation of Powers

c)

Freedom of Speech and Central Government

d)

Freedom of Speech and Separation of Church and State

9.

The definition of reason is: short answer

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10.

The Definition of the Enlightenment is: short answer

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