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The Enlightenment
Test Description: The Enlightenment
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) How was the scientific method being used in the 1600's and 1700's?
A
It was only used to try and understand astronomy
B
It was being used to attempt and understand everything (society, government, astronomy, life, gases etc.)
C
It was used primarily to understand how animals gave birth
D
It was only used to understand gases and chemicals
2) According to Hobbes, why should a person give up some freedoms?
A
A person should give up some freedoms in exchange for security and order
B
No person should listen to authority
C
A person should give up their freedoms because everyone should be enslaved by the king
D
No person should ever give up any freedom
3) What does John Locke say about the power of a king?
A
A king should not have natural power over anyone
B
The king and his family should make the only law because it comes from a heavenly authority
C
The king should be the only source of power
D
The king should have natural power over all of his subjects
4) How did philosophes change the world?
A
They used superstition to answer all of the answers to life's questions
B
They solely used the teachings of the church to try and answer any question
C
They were the first ones to eat meat
D
They applied reason and rational criticism to everthing
5) After identifying 3 types of governments, which kind did Montesquieu believe was the best one?
A
A government in which absolutely no one is in charge
B
A government that did not have one person with all the power
C
A government with one person with all of the power
D
A government that is ruled by one family
6) How would Voltaire describe people?
A
Some people are born better than others
B
People are not equal and should be separated at birth
C
All people are evil and should not be allowed to live
D
People are all equal and should tolerate eachother
7) What was one of the things Diderot's encyclopedia was used as a weapon for?
A
To fight the superstition
B
For the enslavement of women
C
To slap people
D
To fight the idea of global warming
8) What is a social contract?
A
Where an entire society agrees to be governed by its own will and not by force
B
Where the government rules by force with the assistance of the military
C
When a society refuses to be governed by any means
D
Where an entire society agrees to be ruled by force
9) What was an effect of the growth of reading in the 1700's?
A
People did not care to read very much and that lead to people accepting kings as the only power
B
People got dumber and got weaker as a result
C
People did not read very much so it did not have an effect
D
Ideas of the enlightenment spread very quickly and far away
10) What is true about the enlightenment age?
A
Intellectuals thought scientific method combined with rational would lead to truth
B
All governments were overthrown and this led to anarchy everywhere
C
The Catholic Church had power over all people and no one questioned their power
D
Kings and Queens were all killed and only generals were allowed to govern
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