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The Age of Reason & Enlightenment

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Age of Enlightenment took place during what centuries?

a)

1400s & 1500s

b)

1600s & 1700s

c)

1800s & 1900s

d)

1100s & 1200s

2.

Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in...

a)

Protecting the power of Kings

b)

The role of Church in society

c)

Changing the relationship between people and government

d)

Soccer

3.

Which statement would Enlightenment thinkers agree with?

a)

Government exists to serve the peole

b)

Government should serve the church

c)

Government must be ruled by a king

d)

Government shouldn't exist at all

4.

What is Rousseau's idea for a society in which people enter into an agreement with goverment?

a)

Social Network

b)

Natural Laws

c)

Common Sense

d)

Social Contract

5.

What Polish astronomer proposed a heliocentric universe with the sun at the center?

a)

Mozart

b)

Copernicus

c)

Tycho Brahe

d)

Isaac Newton

6.

This person believed that humans are basically beasts, and need government to keep law & order.

a)

John Locke

b)

Rousseau

c)

Montesquieu

d)

Thomas Hobbes

7.

This scientist studies how the human heart pumps blood through the body.

a)

Isaac Newton

b)

William Harvey

c)

Galileo

d)

Francis Bacon

8.

This person argued for freedom of speech and religion, and the separation of church and state.

a)

Voltaire

b)

Thomas Hobbes

c)

Rousseau

d)

John Locke

9.

Who said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?

a)

Montesquieu

b)

Mary Wollstonecraft

c)

Voltaire

d)

King Louis XIV

10.

"I believed that women should be educated and work in the same jobs as men..."

a)

John Locke

b)

Voltaire

c)

Rousseau

d)

Mary Wollstonecraft

11.

Who said: "All people have the natural rights, including life, liberty and property."

a)

Locke

b)

Rousseau

c)

Hobbes

d)

Wollstonecraft

12.

Who said: "Without government our lives would be nasty, brutish, and short!"

a)

Voltaire

b)

Rousseau

c)

Hobbes

d)

Montesquieu

13.

What were the consequences of The Enlightenment?

a)

American Revolution

b)

French Revolution

c)

Haitian Revolution

d)

All of the above