Age of Enlightenment Quiz

What time period did the Age of Enlightenment cover?

• 1600 to 1700

• 1685 to 1815

• 1700 to 1800

• 1750 to 1850

What was another name for the Age of Enlightenment?

• The Age of Discovery

• The Age of Revolution

• The Age of Reason

• The Age of Science

Which two revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals?

• The Industrial and American Revolutions

• The American and French Revolutions

• The French and Russian Revolutions

• The Industrial and French Revolutions

What did Enlightenment thinkers in Europe question?

• Traditional authority

• Scientific discoveries

• The power of the Church

• The role of the monarchy

What did the Enlightenment produce?

• Only scientific discoveries

• Only books and essays

• Numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, and wars

• Only laws and wars

What was the American Revolution?

• When colonies in North America rebelled against the British Empire and founded the United States

• When merchants in France overturned the power of the aristocracy, the king, and the Church

• When the Industrial Revolution began

• When the Renaissance period started

What was the French Revolution?

• When colonies in North America rebelled against the British Empire

• When merchants in France overturned the power of the aristocracy, the king, and the Church

• When the Industrial Revolution began

• When the Renaissance period started

What new age did the Enlightenment give way to in the 1800s?

• Romanticism

• Industrialism

• Modernism

• Realism

Which period is considered the early Enlightenment?

• 1685-1730

• 1600-1650

• 1700-1750

• 1650-1700

Which English philosophers from the 1500s and 1600s were mentioned as paving the way for the Enlightenment?

• Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke and David Hume

• Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle

• Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill