WorksheetsThe Age of Reason & Enlightenment
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
The Age of Enlightenment took place during what centuries?
1400s & 1500s
1600s & 1700s
1800s & 1900s
1100s & 1200s
Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in...
Protecting the power of Kings
The role of Church in society
Changing the relationship between people and government
Soccer
Which statement would Enlightenment thinkers agree with?
Government exists to serve the peole
Government should serve the church
Government must be ruled by a king
Government shouldn't exist at all
What is Rousseau's idea for a society in which people enter into an agreement with goverment?
Social Network
Natural Laws
Common Sense
Social Contract
What Polish astronomer proposed a heliocentric universe with the sun at the center?
Mozart
Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Isaac Newton
This person believed that humans are basically beasts, and need government to keep law & order.
John Locke
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes
This scientist studies how the human heart pumps blood through the body.
Isaac Newton
William Harvey
Galileo
Francis Bacon
This person argued for freedom of speech and religion, and the separation of church and state.
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Rousseau
John Locke
Who said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?
Montesquieu
Mary Wollstonecraft
Voltaire
King Louis XIV
"I believed that women should be educated and work in the same jobs as men..."
John Locke
Voltaire
Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Who said: "All people have the natural rights, including life, liberty and property."
Locke
Rousseau
Hobbes
Wollstonecraft
Who said: "Without government our lives would be nasty, brutish, and short!"
Voltaire
Rousseau
Hobbes
Montesquieu
What were the consequences of The Enlightenment?
American Revolution
French Revolution
Haitian Revolution
All of the above
