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Age of Reason

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Enlightenment is called the _____ _____ _____.

a)

Age of Resistance

b)

Age of Reason

c)

American Revolution

d)

British Revolution

2.

Hobbes and Locke had both seen the violence of the English Civil _____.

a)

Revolution

b)

Reason

c)

War

d)

Battle

3.

The Enlightenment reached its height in _____ in the mid-1700s.

a)

Great Britain

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

England

4.

_____ thought the best government was the one with total control over the people.

a)

Hobbes

b)

Locke

c)

Voltaire

d)

Wollstonecraft

5.

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

a)

Hobbes

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Smith

d)

Locke

6.

Locke believed that a government's power came from its _____.

a)

science

b)

army

c)

power

d)

people

7.

Locke's idea was the beginning of modern _________ .

a)

war

b)

religion

c)

society

d)

democracy

8.

Montesquieu wrote about England's government including branches of government, separation of powers, and __________ .

a)

judicial branch

b)

checks and balances

c)

U.S. Constitution

d)

economics and society

9.

American's used _____'s ideas to write the U.S. Constitution.

a)

Montesquieu

b)

Voltaire

c)

Rousseau

d)

Hobbes

10.

What political event in England had a strong effect on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke?

(a)