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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 only used to understand gases and chemicals
d) It was used primarily to understand how animals gave birth

According to Hobbes, why should a person give up some freedoms?
a) No person should ever give up any freedom
b) A person should give up their freedoms because everyone should be enslaved by the king
c) A person should give up some freedoms in exchange for security and order
d) No person should listen to authority

What does John Locke say about the power of a king?
a) The king and his family should make the only law because it comes from a heavenly authority
b) The king should be the only source of power
c) The king should have natural power over all of his subjects
d) A king should not have natural power over anyone

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 applied reason and rational criticism to everthing
d) They were the first ones to eat meat

After identifying 3 types of governments, which kind did Montesquieu believe was the best one?
a) A government with one person with all of the power
b) A government that did not have one person with all the power
c) A government that is ruled by one family
d) A government in which absolutely no one is in charge

How would Voltaire describe people?
a) Some people are born better than others
b) People are all equal and should tolerate eachother
c) People are not equal and should be separated at birth
d) All people are evil and should not be allowed to live

What was one of the things Diderot's encyclopedia was used as a weapon for?
a) To fight the superstition
b) To slap people
c) To fight the idea of global warming
d) For the enslavement of women

What is a social contract?
a) Where an entire society agrees to be ruled by force
b) Where an entire society agrees to be governed by its own will and not by force
c) When a society refuses to be governed by any means
d) Where the government rules by force with the assistance of the military

What was an effect of the growth of reading in the 1700's?
a) Ideas of the enlightenment spread very quickly and far away
b) People got dumber and got weaker as a result
c) People did not care to read very much and that lead to people accepting kings as the only power
d) People did not read very much so it did not have an effect

What is true about the enlightenment age?
a) All governments were overthrown and this led to anarchy everywhere
b) The Catholic Church had power over all people and no one questioned their power
c) Intellectuals thought scientific method combined with rational would lead to truth
d) Kings and Queens were all killed and only generals were allowed to govern

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