Enlightenment: A Modest Proposal Test

Enlightenment means

• Coming to a higher understanding on a particular topic or idea
• Bringing awareness of something through mockery

What brought about the Enlightenment period?

• The reality that science and math without limit is dangerous
• The turmoil of Europe following the controversy of the English Civil war and the rise of absolute monarchs.

Which was NOT a focus of Enlightenment ideas?

• Science
• Reason
• Imagination

Enlightenment ideas focused mainly on logical thinking over blind faith.

• True
• False

The idea of Deism was

• Believing that God controlled every aspect of their lives
• Believing that God did not have a day to day role in their lives (free-will)

This person came up with the idea that humankind is born with natural rights.

• Thomas Jefferson
• Jonathon Swift
• John Locke

The ideas of the Enlightenment regarding human rights influenced Thomas Jefferson's writing in the Declaration of Independence.

• True
• False

A literary work that ridicules its subject through the use of techniques such as exaggeration, reversal, incongruity, and/or parody in order to make a comment or criticism about it

• Satire
• Irony
• Criticism

The most prominent satirical device used in Jonathon Swift's, "A Modest Proposal" is

• Parody
• Irony
• Exaggeration

When Swifts says, " . . . And besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice . . . as a little bordering upon cruelty . . " he is using

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Irony