WorksheetsThe Scientific Revolution/The Enlightenment Review
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 18mins
What style of art was developed in the 1600s using lighter, more personal and charming colors.
Cubism
Expressionism
Minimalism
Rococo
What type of performances became a huge sensation from Italy to Europe during the 1700s?
The Opera
Fiction
Music festivals
Film Screening
Who wrote beautiful religious works for the organ and choirs, regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time?
Joseph Haydn
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahm
Richard Wagner
Who was the six-year-old composer and performing prodigy in 1761?
Edward Elgar
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mozart
Antonio Vivaldi
What is an Enlightenment despots?
Absolute rulers who used their power to bring about political and social change.
is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law, or one who has usurped a legitimate ruler's sovereignty.
a person who works to achieve political or social change, especially as a member of an organization with particular aims
Smart rulers who put the needs of the upper class above everyone else.
Which Enlightenment leader considered himself "the first servant of the state?"
Catherine the Great
Fredrick the Great
Joseph Stalin
Joseph II
Who was the leader of Austria and was considered an eager Enlightenment student. Disguised himself as a peasant?
Joseph Stalin
Catherine the Great
Joseph II
Fredrick the Great
What is laissez-faire economics?
Allowing business to operate with little or no government interference.
the part of economics concerned with single factors and the effects of individual decisions.
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.
the part of economics concerned with large-scale or general economic factors, such as interest rates and national productivity.
restricting access to ideas and information is known as:
Blocking
Restricting
Burning
Censorship
Who wrote "The Wealth of Nations?"
Benjamin Franklin
Montesquieu
Adam Smith
Rousseau
Who Wrote "The Leviathan?"
Adam Smith
John Locke
Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
What is a free market?
relating to a person or business that has exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
the natural forces of supply and demand.
The government does not get involved in the economy.
a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.
Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas are called?
Meetings
Gatherings
Delegations
Salons
How did churches and traditional governments censor information?
Banning or burning books.
Banning education.
Blocking websites.
Making people illiterate.
Adam Smith argued that ____________?
the state should regulate foreign trade to insure national wealth.
government power should be divided into three branches.
freely elected governments should make economic decisions.
the free market should regulate business activity.
How did the Scientific Revolution lead to The Enlightenment?
It revived the scientific thinking of ancient Greece and Rome.
It undermined the authority of the Church.
It encouraged people to use reason to solve problems.
It proved the existence of natural rights.
What is the definition of natural laws?
A right that is believed to belong to every person.
Unchanging principals, discovered through reason, that govern all human conduct.
A minor change or addition designed to improve, a text, a piece of legislation, etc.
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
gaining new understanding of the physical world and the universe was known as the_______________?
The Renaissance
The Scientific Revolution
The Protestant Reformation
The Enlightenment
Who invented the Heliocentric Theory?
Galileo Galilei
Robert Boyle
Francis Bacon
Nicolaus Copernicus
The Heliocentric theory claims that the planets in our universe revolve around the _____________?
The moon
The Earth
The Sun
Each other
Geo-centric theory means the sun and the moon revolve around ____________?
The Earth
The Sun
The universe
Jupiter and Saturn
Who invented the astronomical telescope?
Ptolemy
Nicholas Copernicus
Francis Bacon
Galileo
Who described the flow of blood in the human body for the first time?
Ambroise Pare
Francis Bacon
Andreas Vesalius
William Harvey
What did John Locke say were people's three natural rights?
Life, freedom, and property
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Life, liberty, and property
Existence, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Johannes Kepler discovered that ________?
The Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
All matter is made up of tiny organisms.
The heart is responsible for blood circulation.
The planets revolve around the sun in a elliptical pattern.
What is the scientific method used for?
Examining laws of society and government.
Converting observations and experiments into scientific laws.
Explaining the effect of certain temperatures on gases.
Determining natural rights and unchanging correlations.
Andreas Vesalius detailed the first ____________?
Accurate depiction of the solar system.
accurate understanding of the circulation of blood.
Method of sealing wounds.
accurate depiction of the human body.
Who invented the single-lens microscope?
Galileo Galilei
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Boyle
William Harvey
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek is regarded as the ____________?
Father of astronomy
Father of chemistry
Father of microbiology
Father of physics
Who developed the basis for calculus?
Isaac Newton
Robert Boyle
Andreas Vesalius
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Who believed the best form of government to control people was an absolute monarchy?
John Locke
Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Montesquieu
Who believed that the best form of government had limited power and protected peoples natural rights?
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Free markets depend on two principles ______ & _______
Checks & Balances
Law & Order
Banning & Burning
Supply & Demand
Which Enlightenment Despot abolished torture and granted some religious freedoms to Muslims and Christians?
Fredrick the Great
Joseph II
Catherine the Great
Joseph Stalin
