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Absolutism & Enlightenment

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name

Class

Date

What was the divine right of kings?

Kings were descended from God.

Kings were the head of the church/

Kings received their authority from God alone.

Only kings were able to decide what people believed.

Where did Louis XIV move France's palace?

Lyon

Gordes

Versailles

Dinan

Oliver Cromwell created what type of government after the English Civil War?

Democracy

Monarchy

Commonwealth

Oligarchy

What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?

natural right

natural law

social contract

divine right

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

Reformation

Glorious Revolution

Renaissance

Scientific Revolution.

The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Rousseau

Diderot

John Locke's central political value was

A) the protection of individual rights

B) designing governments around biblical teachings

C) ensuring an equal distribution of wealth

D) the empowerment of the majority of people

___________________ believed that without government, people would fight each other all the time.

Locke

Hobbes

Montesquieu

Smith

Philosophers of the Enlightenment wanted to use __________ in all areas of life.

A. government

B. economics

C. politics

D. reason

10.

______________________ believed in religious freedom and tolerance.

John Locke

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thomas Hobbes

Voltaire

11.

According to Rousseau, what is the role of government?

It is to dictate to the people what the government wants.

It is to implement policies beneficial to the government.

It is to steer away from popular sovereignty.

It is to protect the "general will" of the people

12.

The Enlightenment is

a time of rebirth

a time when science ruled

a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world

a time when technology ruled

13.

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

Philosophers

Democracy

Social Contract

Divine Right of Kings

14.

Which Enlightenment thinker believed in abolishing torture?

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Baron de Montesquieu

Cesare Beccaria

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Absolutism & Enlightenment

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

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