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TRIVIA!!!!! How many American states border the Gulf of Mexico?
Three
Six
Five
Four
2
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
John Locke
Baron du Montesquieu
3
The
philosophes
challenged absolutism and instead proposed that...
the best form of government is a democracy.
true government stems from religious authority.
all government is unjust; we should live in a SoN.
governments are bound to the will of the governed.
4
"An object in motion stays in motion on a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force."
Galileo Galilei
Nicholas Copernicus
Isaac Newton
Sir Francis Bacon
5
The scientific method called for...
observation and biblical faith
observation and speculation
observation and rational hypothesis
observation and tradition
6
TRIVIA! Wednesday (Dec. 7th) was the 75th anniversary of...
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
the election of the first woman to the U.S. Congress
the start of WWI
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
7
TRIVIA!!! The person with the most 2016 Grammy nominations is...
Rhianna
Beyoncé
Adele
Drake
8
TRIVIA!!!! The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by which country?
Germany
France
England
Russia
9
The idea that government should protect the rights of the people was part of the theories of...
John Locke
Montesquieu
Adam Smith
Thomas Hobbes
10
Kepler's observations proved that planetary motion was...
spherical
elliptical
circular
irregular
11
Freedom of speech was championed primarily by...
Hobbes
Voltaire
Locke
Diderot
12
The language of the Enlightenment was not Latin, the language of scholars, it was...
French
English
German
Italian
13
Proposed by Hobbes and Locke the idea that people in the SoN trade some freedoms for gov't is..
the social contract
a constitutional monarchy
personal liberties
a constitution
14
A belief that God set the world in motion but did not govern its continued affairs.
None of the above
Agnosticism
Deism
Atheism
15
Enlightenment thinkers believed decisions about government should be based upon...
divine right of kings
natural laws & reason
heredity
religious beliefs
16
The Enlightenment may best be summarized as...
All of the above
The use of logic and reason to reform society.
The use of observation to understand the heavens.
The turn to revealed truths to understand the natural world.
17
Sir Francis Bacon was in favor of
deductive reason,
which was based on...
using observation to support general ideas
using revealed assumptions to draw conclusions.
18
“One can not abuse power if, by arrangement of things, power checks power”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Baron du Montesquieu
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
19
"When there is no accumulation of property, there is no injustice."
Denis Diderot
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Jean-Jacque Rousseau
20
TRIVIA!! Which country became the FIRST in the world to have a female prime minister?
Vietnam
England
Sri Lanka
Germany
21
Montesquieu's contribution to American government, as articulated in the
Spirit of Laws
, was...
separation of powers
right of revolution
federalism
personal liberties
22
"With sincere heart and unpretended faith, I...curse...[my] aforesaid errors and heresy."
Isaac Newton
Nicholas Copernicus
John Locke
Galileo Galilei
23
The idea of popular sovereignty was first championed by...
Thomas Hobbes
Denis Diderot
John Locke
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
24
According to Rousseau, the best form of government was...
Theocracy
Absolute monarchy
Democracy
Constitutional monarchy
25
Locke and Rousseau would most likely support...
monarchical government
rights of the citizens to decide on best form of government
hierarchical feudal society
government controlled by the church
26
SciRev and Enlightenment thinkers took intellectual focus away from antiquity and tried to...
solve problems through observation and rational thought.
apply science to art and literature.
solve human problems with mathematics.
overthrow absolute monarchs and leaders of the church.
27
TRIVIA!! What is the longest river in the world?
the Yangtze
the Nile
the Amazon
the Mississippi
28
"My aim is to collect all the knowledge that lies scattered across the face of the earth..."
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
Baron du Montesquieu
29
"The Christian Bible reveals how one goes to heaven; science reveals how the heavens go."
Nicholas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
30
Enlightenment thinkers were primarily concerned with challenging...
scientists of the Scientific Revolution
Constitutional monarchs and Martin Luther
None of the above
organized Christian church(s) and absolutism
31
"The reason men enter into society together is for the preservation of property and liberty."
Thomas Hobbes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Baron du Montesquieu
John Locke
32
"The condition of man...is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."
Thomas Hobbes
John-Jacques Rousseau
Denis Diderot
John Locke
33
Copernicus's ideas about the earth's movement were condemned by Martin Luther because they...
were accepted by the Council of Trent.
were perceived as witchcraft.
were based on philosophy rather than mathematics.
contradicted biblical passages.
34
Diderot's goal in editing the
Encyclopedia
was...
to introduce people to science.
to provide people with the answers to social problems.
to compile the knowledge of the world in one place.
to challenge the church and the state
35
The Enlightenment thinker who did the most work spreading Enlightenment ideas was...
Rousseau
Voltaire
Diderot
Locke
