Enlightenment Quiz

Absolutism is the belief that people have the power to rule themselves.

• True
• False

All of the following EXCEPT ___________________contributed to Europe's rise in absolute monarchs in the 1500-1700s.

• The Black Death
• Church loses power after the Reformation
• Large armies and constant war
• Great wealth from the colonies

_______________________________ is the belief that a ruler's authority comes from God.

• Absolutism
• Republicanism
• Divine Right of Kings
• Monarchy

What was the Enlightenment?

• When electricity was discovered
• A change in outlook/thinking of educated Europeans in the 1600s-1700s
• A dark age period in which there were old ways of thinking

How did Enlightenment thinkers affect later societies?

• They managed to control political affairs
• By addressing feudalism
• By addressing both social and political issues

Which American document uses ideas that John Locke had about natural rights and purpose of government, that included the right to life, liberty and property?

• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution
• The Bill of Rights

Which Enlightenment thinker promoted freedom of speech, religious toleration and separation of church and state?

• Hobbes
• Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Rousseau

Enlightenment Culture: This scientist is considered by many to be the "greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."

• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Galileo
• Isaac Newton

Enlightenment Culture: This Spanish author wrote the first modern novel entitled Don Quixote.

• Benito Pérez Galdós
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Miguel Cervantes
• Daniel Defoe

Enlightenment Culture: This German composer and pianist remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.

• Bach
• Beethoven
• Mozart
• Goya