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Which of the following is not an idea from the Enlightenment?
a) Governments should serve the people.
b) Kings rule by divine right.
c) Problems can be solved by using reason.
d) People have natural rights.

Before the Enlightenment, most people lived under which type of government?
a) Theocracy
b) Oligarchy
c) Representative Democracy
d) Absolute Monarchy

Which of the following did not inspire the founders with inspiration for the founding documents of the United States?
a) Ancient Greece
b) Magna Carta
c) Soviet Republic Charters
d) Enlightenment

In the 18th Century, this was a time of great intellectual activity across Europe which emphasized reason and individualism, not tradition.
a) the Enlightenment
b) The Gilded Age
c) The Age of Intellectuals
d) The Harlem Renaissance

Another name for the Enlightenment was the Age of...
a) Anger
b) Questioning
c) Empires
d) Reason

Which of the following was not an idea of Enlightenment philosophers?
a) People can think for themselves
b) People have no individual rights
c) People can challenge longstanding beliefs
d) People have natural rights

This 1215 document constituted a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges the king could not take away. This was a constitutional building block.
a) The Magna Carta
b) The Pinta
c) The Code of Hammurabi
d) The Declaration of Independence

The idea that all humans are born with rights, which include the right to life, liberty and property
a) Divine Right
b) Natural Rights
c) Free Rights
d) Civic Rights

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.
a) Dictatorship
b) Popular Sovereignty
c) Balance of Powers
d) Federalism

Who believed people could think for themselves and had natural rights
a) Enlightenment Philosophers
b) English Philosophes
c) Divine Kings
d) French Kings

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