Age of Englightenment Test Review

Question 1

Who believed that the purpose of separation of powers was to protect the libertie of the people

Accepted Answer

Montesquieu

Question 2

Salons were one area of eighteenth-century life that who controlled?

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women

Question 3

Adam Smith tried to show that natural economic forces of supply and demand were linked to

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profit and economic growth

Question 4

Which of the following did Tories support?

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broad powers for the monarch

Question 5

According to Hobbes and Locke, human nature was governed by

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natural laws

Question 6

Which philosophe defended freedom of speech?

Accepted Answer

Voltaire

Question 7

The work of who helped to create a new style of classical composition?

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Mozart

Question 8

The Tory party in Britain was made up primarily of

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landowning aristocrats

Question 9

Life, liberty, and property are examples of

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natural rights

Question 10

He was known as the peasant emperor & used Enlightenment ideals to improve people's lives

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Joseph II

Question 11

Catherine II's contribution to Russia was

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an expanded empire

Question 12

Which of the following groups had the right to vote in Britain in the 1700s?

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male property owners

Question 13

How did the creation of the United Kingdom help both England and Scotland?

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created larger markets

Question 14

The works of who were religious in nature?

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Bach

Question 15

What did the majority of people in Britain do during the 1700s?

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farmed

Question 16

The principles of checks and balances and separation of powers were put forward by

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Montesquieu

Question 17

What group had the power to disband the cabinet?

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the House of Commons

Question 18

Which of the following helped Britain become a global power in the 1700s?

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Its strong navy

Question 19

This was disappearing in the West, and became even more deeply rooted in Russia

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serdom

Question 20

Government and church officials fought against Enlightenment ideas with

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censorship

Question 21

Rousseau belived that people are generally

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good

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