WorksheetsAge of Enlightenment
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What provided a place for social gatherings in which artists and thinkers exchanged ideas?
a)
library
b)
center
c)
salon
d)
classrooms
2.
What was colonial protest a tax on tea in Boston?
a)
Tea Protest
b)
Boston Tea Party
c)
Boston Massacre
d)
Tea Act
3.
Who was the French satirist who targeted the clergy, the rich, the gov, & wrote on free speech?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Hobbes
c)
Wollstonecraft
d)
Rousseau
4.
Who was the inspiration for the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Hobbes
b)
Jefferson
c)
Locke
d)
Montesquieu
5.
The new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power to solve problems
a)
natural rights
b)
neoclassicism
c)
baroque
d)
enlightenment
6.
Who believed that a nation needed a proper justice system & argued for fair and speedy trials?
a)
Beccaria
b)
Wollstonecraft
c)
Hobbes
d)
Bacon
7.
Who believed that only an absolute monarchy can ensure an orderly society?
a)
Beccaria
b)
Wollstonecraft
c)
Hobbes
d)
Bacon
8.
wrote “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience"
a)
Beccaria
b)
Wollstonecraft
c)
Hobbes
d)
Bacon
9.
Who are philosophers who believed that people could use reason to fix social problems?
a)
Doctors
b)
politicians
c)
philosophes
d)
priests
10.
John Locke believed that the rights of life, liberty, and property were these
a)
civil rights
b)
Locke's rights
c)
natural rights
d)
fight for your right. . . to party!
11.
believed that knowledge be based on experimentation & observation in the scientific revolution
a)
Beccaria
b)
Wollstonecraft
c)
Hobbes
d)
Bacon
12.
Who was the French enlightenment thinker who believed that people are basically good?
a)
Rousseau
b)
George III
c)
Montesquieu
d)
Diderot
13.
What replaced baroque as a new style of art during the Age of Enlightenment?
a)
neoclassicism
b)
dada
c)
classicism
d)
baroque
14.
Who was the king of England during the American Revolution?
a)
Rousseau
b)
Montesquieu
c)
George III
d)
Diderot
15.
What was the group of colonial leaders who made decisions during the American Revolution?
a)
the Revolution
b)
the Libertarians
c)
Boston Tea Party
d)
Continental Congress
16.
What is a system in which power is divided between a national government and the states?
a)
capitalism
b)
federalism
c)
abosolutism
d)
republic
17.
What is an agreement by which people give up their natural state for an organized society?
a)
social contract
b)
covenant
c)
contract
d)
natural right
18.
What is a type of government in which citizens rule through elected representatives?
a)
democracy
b)
social contract
c)
republic
d)
federalism
19.
editor of the controversial Encyclopedia, banned by the Catholic Church and French government
a)
Rousseau
b)
Montesquieu
c)
George III
d)
Diderot
20.
What was the grand and complex artistic style that emerged before the Age of Enlightenment?
a)
neoclassicism
b)
dada
c)
classicism
d)
baroque
21.
Who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence?
a)
Jefferson
b)
George III
c)
Diderot
d)
Montesquieu
22.
universal moral law that, like physical laws, can be understood by applying reason
a)
monarchy
b)
natural rights
c)
moral law
d)
natural law
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