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The Scientific Revolution/The Enlightenment Review

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What style of art was developed in the 1600s using lighter, more personal and charming colors.

a)

Cubism

b)

Expressionism

c)

Minimalism

d)

Rococo

2.

What type of performances became a huge sensation from Italy to Europe during the 1700s?

a)

The Opera

b)

Fiction

c)

Music festivals

d)

Film Screening

3.

Who wrote beautiful religious works for the organ and choirs, regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time?

a)

Joseph Haydn

b)

Johann Sebastian Bach

c)

Johannes Brahm

d)

Richard Wagner

4.

Who was the six-year-old composer and performing prodigy in 1761?

a)

Edward Elgar

b)

Johann Sebastian Bach

c)

Mozart

d)

Antonio Vivaldi

5.

What is an Enlightenment despots? 

a)

Absolute rulers who used their power to bring about political and social change.

b)

is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty.

c)

a person who works to achieve political or social change, especially as a member of an organization with particular aims

d)

Smart rulers who put the needs of the upper class above everyone else.

6.

Which Enlightenment leader considered himself "the first servant of the state?"

a)

Catherine the Great

b)

Fredrick the Great

c)

Joseph Stalin

d)

Joseph II

7.

Who was the leader of Austria and was considered an eager Enlightenment student. Disguised himself as a peasant?

a)

Joseph Stalin

b)

Catherine the Great

c)

Joseph II

d)

Fredrick the Great

8.


What is laissez-faire economics? 

a)

Allowing business to operate with little or no government interference.

b)

the part of economics concerned with single factors and the effects of individual decisions.

c)

an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.

d)

the part of economics concerned with large-scale or general economic factors, such as interest rates and national productivity.

9.

restricting access to ideas and information is known as:

a)

Blocking

b)

Restricting

c)

Burning

d)

Censorship

10.

Who wrote "The Wealth of Nations?"

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Montesquieu

c)

Adam Smith

d)

Rousseau

11.

Who Wrote "The Leviathan?"

a)

Adam Smith

b)

John Locke

c)

Rousseau

d)

Thomas Hobbes

12.

What is a free market?

a)

relating to a person or business that has exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

b)

the natural forces of supply and demand.

c)

The government does not get involved in the economy.

d)

a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.

13.

Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas are called?

a)

Meetings

b)

Gatherings

c)

Delegations

d)

Salons

14.

How did churches and traditional governments censor information?

a)

Banning or burning books.

b)

Banning education.

c)

Blocking websites.

d)

Making people illiterate.

15.

Adam Smith argued that ____________?

a)

the state should regulate foreign trade to insure national wealth.

b)

government power should be divided into three branches.

c)

freely elected governments should make economic decisions.

d)

the free market should regulate business activity.

16.

How did the Scientific Revolution lead to The Enlightenment?

a)

It revived the scientific thinking of ancient Greece and Rome.

b)

It undermined the authority of the Church.

c)

It encouraged people to use reason to solve problems.

d)

It proved the existence of natural rights.

17.

What is the definition of natural laws?

a)

A right that is believed to belong to every person.

b)

Unchanging principals, discovered through reason, that govern all human conduct.

c)

A minor change or addition designed to improve, a text, a piece of legislation, etc.

d)

the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties

18.

gaining new understanding of the physical world and the universe was known as the_______________?

a)

The Renaissance

b)

The Scientific Revolution

c)

The Protestant Reformation

d)

The Enlightenment

19.

Who invented the Heliocentric Theory?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Robert Boyle

c)

Francis Bacon

d)

Nicolaus Copernicus

20.

The Heliocentric theory claims that the planets in our universe revolve around the _____________?

a)

The moon

b)

The Earth

c)

The Sun

d)

Each other

21.

Geo-centric theory means the sun and the moon revolve around ____________?

a)

The Earth

b)

The Sun

c)

The universe

d)

Jupiter and Saturn

22.

Who invented the astronomical telescope?

a)

Ptolemy

b)

Nicholas Copernicus

c)

Francis Bacon

d)

Galileo

23.

Who described the flow of blood in the human body for the first time?

a)

Ambroise Pare

b)

Francis Bacon

c)

Andreas Vesalius

d)

William Harvey

24.

What did John Locke say were people's three natural rights?

a)

Life, freedom, and property

b)

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

c)

Life, liberty, and property

d)

Existence, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

25.

Johannes Kepler discovered that ________?

a)

The Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.

b)

All matter is made up of tiny organisms.

c)

The heart is responsible for blood circulation.

d)

The planets revolve around the sun in a elliptical pattern.

26.

What is the scientific method used for?

a)

Examining laws of society and government.

b)

Converting observations and experiments into scientific laws.

c)

Explaining the effect of certain temperatures on gases.

d)

Determining natural rights and unchanging correlations.

27.

Andreas Vesalius detailed the first ____________?

a)

Accurate depiction of the solar system.

b)

accurate understanding of the circulation of blood.

c)

Method of sealing wounds.

d)

accurate depiction of the human body.

28.

Who invented the single-lens microscope?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

c)

Robert Boyle

d)

William Harvey

29.

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek is regarded as the ____________?

a)

Father of astronomy

b)

Father of chemistry

c)

Father of microbiology

d)

Father of physics

30.

Who developed the basis for calculus?

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

Robert Boyle

c)

Andreas Vesalius

d)

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

31.

Who believed the best form of government to control people was an absolute monarchy?

a)

John Locke

b)

Rousseau

c)

Thomas Hobbes

d)

Montesquieu

32.

Who believed that the best form of government had limited power and protected peoples natural rights?

a)

John Locke

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

Rousseau

d)

Mary Wollstonecraft

33.

Free markets depend on two principles ______ & _______

a)

Checks & Balances

b)

Law & Order

c)

Banning & Burning

d)

Supply & Demand

34.

Which Enlightenment Despot abolished torture and granted some religious freedoms to Muslims and Christians?

a)

Fredrick the Great

b)

Joseph II

c)

Catherine the Great

d)

Joseph Stalin