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Grade 11 Enlightenment
Which of following was written by Denis Diderot in order to promote knowledge?
  1. The Encyclopedia
  2. Leviathan
  3. Candide
  4. Two Treatises on Government
Grade 11 Enlightenment
How did the Enlightenment lead to a more secular outlook?
  1. More people questioned religious teaching
  2. More people wanted peace instead of war
  3. People believed more in religion than science
Grade 11 Enlightenment
What did Montesquieu admire about the British government?
  1. Their need to conquer as much land as possible
  2. Their Bill of Rights
  3. Their separation of power
Grade 11 Enlightenment
A major eighteenth-century result of the Enlightenment was
  1. the rise of classical liberalism and the French Revolution
  2. the rise of mercantilism and state-sponsored monopolies
  3. the onset of the Scientific Revolution
  4. the rejection of rationalism among European elites
  5. the rise of scientific socialism as a new political philosophy
Grade 11 Enlightenment
The most prevalent people in Paris came to socialize here
  1. Salons
  2. Backyard
  3. Salonieries
Grade 11 Enlightenment
What new approach allowed scholars to gain new scientific knowledge?
  1. financing by the Church
  2. universal public education
  3. the scientific method
  4. the Inquisition
Grade 11 Enlightenment
I viewed people as nasty, brutish and poor
  1. Locke
  2. Smith
  3. Hobbes
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Hobbes believed that what type of government was best?
  1. Monarchy
  2. Democracy
  3. Oligarchy
  4. Dictatorship
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Rousseau believed in the general will of all people in this document
  1. salons
  2. philosohes
  3. social contract
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Which of the following philosophers influenced the “enlightened despots” to decrease the use of torture?
  1. Marquis de Beccaria
  2. Georg William Friederick Hegel
  3. Denis Diderot
  4. Marquis de Condorcet
  5. Immanuel Kant
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Which of the following posed theories that brought him into direct conflict with the Church?
  1. Francis Bacon
  2. Aristotle
  3. Galileo
  4. Ptolemy
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Who wrote the Two Treatises on Government?
  1. Thomas Hobbes
  2. Adam Smith
  3. John Locke
  4. Isaac Newton
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Which of the following conducted revolutionary experiments to study gravity that led to his development of the laws of motion?
  1. Tycho Brahe
  2. Galileo Galilei
  3. Francis Bacon
  4. Baruch Spinoza
  5. Pierre Bayle
Grade 11 Enlightenment
Which of the following published a book supporting the heliocentric theory?
  1. Copernicus
  2. Descartes
  3. Ptolemy
  4. Galen
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