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Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution Quiz

Authored by Christian Puckett

Social Studies

9th Grade

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Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which did the Enlightenment promote?

a belief in progress

a more secular outlook

faith in science

all of the above

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

John Locke argued that the purpose of the government is to

protect a monarch’s divine right.

suppress discontent among citizens.

protect a citizen’s natural rights.

persecute the proletariat.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The scientific method differed from the way in which earlier scientists tried to understand nature because it

used logic as its main tool.

relied on the teachings of the Church.

advocated observation and experimentation.

challenged the concept of natural laws.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which were caused by the Scientific Revolution?

the belief that the earth was an unmoving object at the center of the universe

improvements in medicine and scientific instruments

reliance on ancient authorities to explain the physical world

Enlightenment thinking and the use of reason to think about the world around them

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which Enlightenment thinker believed in general will, a will that tries to protect the interests of most of the people in the country?

John Locke

Copernicus

Rousseau

Voltaire

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is true of John Locke’s tabula rasa?

Students need to write down their ideas in order to learn them

All knowledge comes from experience or perception

The government should protect free thought

Elections should be fair

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How are the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment alike?

Everyone shared their ideas in salons

The Catholic Church supported all of the new ideas

They used natural laws to explain the universe

They all tried to prove gravity

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