Enlightenment and American Revolution Quiz

Enlightenment and American Revolution Quiz

9th Grade

25 Qs

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Enlightenment and American Revolution Quiz

Enlightenment and American Revolution Quiz

Assessment

Quiz

History

9th Grade

Hard

Created by

SUSAN MAKI

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25 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was NOT one of the 3 major emphases of the Enlightenment?

Science

Society

Political

Religion

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who argued that distributing powers to separate branches of government would avoid tyranny and promote quality?

Montesquieu

Diderot

Voltaire

Locke

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Cataloged the new Enlightenment worldview in his work, the encyclopedia?

Rousseau

Montesquieu

Diderot

John Locke

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Believed man had 3 natural rights: life, liberty, and property. Emphasized a government that had a limited amount of power.

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Believed that men were naturally wicked and needed to live under a sovereign power to avoid conflict.

Thomas Hobbes

John Locke

Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Emphasized a separation of powers in government with a system of checks and balances.

Montesquieu

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Conceptualized a social contract, or an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Montesquieu

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