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During the Enlightenment, political thinkers tried to use reason to improve government and society...
a) True
b) False
c) .
d) .

Catherine the Great of Russia was the last of Europe's major monarchs...
a) True
b) False
c) .
d) .

A great thinker of the Enlightenment, Voltaire opposed governments that...
a) believed in social contracts
b) favored one religion
c) had a separation of powers
d) operated under a constitutional monarchy

Political thinker who believed that there should be 3 branches of government...
a) Voltaire
b) Hobbes
c) Locke
d) Montesquieu

One English writer who was a strong supporter of women's rights...
a) Denis Diderot
b) Francois-Marie Arouet
c) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
d) Mary Wollstonecraft

A government lead by a king or queen
a) rationalism
b) social contract
c) monarchy
d) natural rights

Division of power among branches of government...
a) separation of powers
b) social contract
c) unlimited power
d) natural rights

The idea that rulers get their power from God...
a) constitutional monarchy
b) divine right
c) limited government
d) checks and balances

Political system in which a king or queen rules according to the constitution...
a) constitutional monarchy
b) divine right
c) social contract
d) rationalism

Government has absolute and total control..
a) unlimited government
b) social contract
c) separation of powers
d) natural rights

Russian word for Ceasar
a) Czar
b) Kaiser
c) Putin
d) Prickett

French King who was an absolute ruler
a) Louis XIV
b) Henry VIII
c) Marie Antoinette
d) Phillip II

Palace built by Louis XIV
a) Versailles
b) Buckingham Palace
c) The White House
d) Chateau de Chambord

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