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Grade 12 Enlightenment
Grade 9 Enlightenment
Grade 9 Enlightenment
Which statement best describes the effects of the works of Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Sir Isaac Newton, and René Descartes?
  1. The scientific method was used to solve problems.
  2. The acceptance of traditional authority was strengthened.
  3. Funding to education was increased by the English government.
  4. Interest in Greek and Roman drama was renewed.
Grade 9 Enlightenment
Grade 7 Enlightenment
Who was known as the Father Modern Chemistry?
  1. Robert Boyle
  2. Antoine Lavoisier
  3. Sir Isaac Newton
Grade 11 Enlightenment
What did Montesquieu admire about the British government?
  1. Their need to conquer as much land as possible
  2. Their Bill of Rights
  3. Their separation of power
Grade 11 Enlightenment
A major eighteenth-century result of the Enlightenment was
  1. the rise of classical liberalism and the French Revolution
  2. the rise of mercantilism and state-sponsored monopolies
  3. the onset of the Scientific Revolution
  4. the rejection of rationalism among European elites
  5. the rise of scientific socialism as a new political philosophy
Grade 9 Enlightenment
In John Locke's social contract people could                       .
  1. question govenmet
  2. not question govenment
  3. look the other way
  4. elect a president
Grade 10 Enlightenment
What was the Scientific Revolution?
  1. New way of thinking about the natural world
  2. The birth of modern scientific thought
  3. Development of tools that helped explorers travel
  4. Enslavement and Transportation of African People
Grade 9 Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes wrote                                        
  1. an Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  2. The Bible
  3. The Tabula Rasa
  4. The Leviathan
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Grade 11 Enlightenment
What new approach allowed scholars to gain new scientific knowledge?
  1. financing by the Church
  2. universal public education
  3. the scientific method
  4. the Inquisition
Grade 9 Enlightenment
Grade 9 Enlightenment
Grade 6 Enlightenment
Which of the persons below is NOT associated with the Enlightenment Period?
  1. Isaac Newton
  2. Sir Walter Raleigh
  3. Francis Bacon
  4. Mozart
  5. Copernicus
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Hobbes believed that what type of government was best?
  1. Monarchy
  2. Democracy
  3. Oligarchy
  4. Dictatorship
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