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Chapter 13 Discovering Our Past

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An astronomer and inventor who proved the heliocentric theory.

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

John Locke

c)

Latin

d)

Isaac Newton

2.

The job of this branch of government is to make the laws.

a)

Judicial

b)

Legislative

c)

executive

d)

If you want to get it wrong

3.

a political thinker who believed that governments should  protect people’s rights

a)

Latin

b)

Hobbes

c)

John Locke

d)

Isaac Newton

4.

Because classical thinkers often based their conclusions on this, some of their beliefs turned out to be false. 

a)

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b)

Scientific Method

c)

Knowledge

d)

Common Sense

5.

What Russian monarch allowed nobles to dominate the serfs?

a)

Catherine the great

b)

Voltaire

c)

Hobbes

d)

Sir Francis Bacon

6.

 What Austrian’s reforms included improved living conditions  for serfs as well as the setting up of schools?

a)

Hobbes

b)

Maria Theresa

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Pattern

7.

During what age did political thinkers try to use reason to  improve the government? 

a)

Second step of scientific method

b)

Scientific method

c)

Age of Enlightenment

d)

Science

8.

 The scientist who believed that the solar system was held  together by the force of gravity was….

a)

Slr Isaac Newten

b)

Sir Isaac Newten

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Sir Isaac Newton

9.

Ptolemy’s theory that the sun moved around the Earth.

a)

Geocentric

Theory

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Scientific Method

d)

Age of Enlightenment

10.

These two differed in their views of how the government  was influenced by natural law. 

a)

Isaac Newton And Locke

b)

Locke And Hobbes

c)

Hobbes and Voltaire

d)

Voltaire and Locke

11.

 What did the Petition of Right do? It said the king could not tax the people without parliament’s approval, as well as not being able to imprison someone without just reason, as well as

a)

If war was upon them he could not act

b)

He could declare a state of emergency

c)

He could not declare a state of emergency unless they were going to war.

d)

Nothing else

12.

The political thinker who believed in deism

a)

Isaac Newtan

b)

Locke

c)

Hobbes

d)

Voltaire

13.

Which step of the scientific method means to create an explanation of the facts as you see them? 

a)

Second hypothesize

b)

New religion

c)

Age of Enlightenment

d)

Scientific Method

14.

Voltaire opposed governments that…

a)

free nations

b)

Favored one religion and forbade others

c)

Gave women rights

d)

Absolutism kingdoms

15.

This political thinker believed that people needed strong rule  by a leader who had total power 

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Voltaire

c)

Hobbes

d)

Locke

16.

Who does “the judiciary” refer to?

a)

Executive branch

b)

Legislative branch

c)

Judicial branch

d)

Judges and courts

17.

Classical scientific methods were less accurate than those based on this person’s later scientific method…  Sir Francis Bacon

a)

Sir Francis Bacon

b)

Sir Bacon Francis

c)

Bacon Francis

d)

Sir Isaac Newton

18.

True/False A scientific theory may be INCORRECT, but it doesn't seem to explain the facts.

a)

False

b)

True

c)

Felse

d)

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