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Governments and Schools before the scientific revolution

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This type of government was the one most common in Europe before the 1600s.

a)

Democracy

b)

Limited constitutional Monarchy

c)

Dictatorship

d)

Absolute Monarchy

2.

This subject, taught at University, involved looking at zodiac signs and making predictions about the future, explaining the past.

a)

Logic

b)

Astronomy

c)

Music

d)

Grammar

3.

Students at university usually studied how many years in order to earn a Master of Arts degree?

a)

2-4

b)

10-15

c)

8-9

d)

6-8

4.

This government type, symbolized by a ballot box, have the key characteristic of the people choosing their leaders, and having the right to vote as citizens.

a)

Dictatorship

b)

Oligarchy

c)

Democracy

d)

Monarchy

5.

This subject, taught at University, involved students focused on measuring the earth's size, shape & position in the universe.

a)

astronomy

b)

music

c)

geometry

d)

arithmetic

6.

Young males began their educational journey at about what age?

a)

5

b)

7

c)

10

d)

15

7.

This subject, taught at University, was primarily focused on learning how to make a strong argument.

a)

Rhetoric

b)

Grammar

c)

Logic

d)

Geometry

8.

This type of Law was the most prestigious area to specialize in.

a)

Humours

b)

canon

c)

civil

d)

horoscope

9.

The type of monarchy that they have currently in the U.K.

a)

Absolute Monarchy

b)

Representative Democracy

c)

Limited Constitutional Monarchy

d)

Dictatorship

10.

Students at university were taught that:

a)

Astrology was not a valid thing to study.

b)

It was acceptable to question what teachers said.

c)

It is possible to know something is true, with no evidence of why.

d)

The goal of a musician was to write secular (non church related) music.

11.

Those who had earned a Doctorate of Medicine degree thought that illness was a result of what?

a)

bacteria

b)

viruses

c)

an imbalance of bodily fluids

d)

bloodletting

12.

This subject, taught at University, was the main focus of students' first year of study toward their Master of Arts degree (they spent an entire year on this).

a)

Retoric

b)

Logic

c)

Grammar

d)

Geometry

13.

People didn't question what the ancient Greeks had written or what the Roman Catholic church taught

a)

Before the scientific revolution

b)

After the scientific revolution

14.

People used the scientific revolution, experimentation, and new tools like the microscope & barometer

a)

Before the scientific revolution

b)

After the scientific revolution

15.

People generally didn't question what they were taught in school

a)

If they are enrolled in modern day schools

b)

If they lived in Europe before the 1500s

c)

If they lived after the scientific revolution

16.

This man was the first to propose the geocentric theory

a)

Copernicus

b)

Ptolemy

c)

Galileo

d)

Isaac Newton

17.

Most people believed in geocentric theory

a)

After Keplar published his math calculations

b)

Before Ptolemy lived and worked

c)

Before the scientific revolution

d)

After the scientific revolution

18.

Heliocentric theory means what?

a)

Hero centered

b)

Moon centered

c)

Earth centered

d)

Sun centered

19.

Which scientist lived and worked first, based on the contributions this individual made to the development of heliocentric theory?

a)

Galileo

b)

Keplar

c)

Copernicus

d)

Ptolemy

20.

Which of these do people living today believe more in?

a)

Legitimacy of Alchemy as a science

b)

Geocentric theory

c)

The role played by the position of the stars, in the course of our lives

d)

Heliocentric theory