Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment QUIZ

Question 1

New intellectual movement stressing reason and thought, and power of people to solve problems

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Enlightenment

Question 2

Balancing the powers of government was essential to create oppression by the government...

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Montesquieu

Question 3

Jefferson changed which part of Locke's natural rights theory in the Declaration?

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Property

Question 4

Who said: "All people were brutish, greedy, and unable to control themselves..."

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Hobbes

Question 5

Which of the following does NOT support a social contract philosophy?

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Voltaire

Question 6

What was Diderot's contribution to the Enlightenment?

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the Encyclopedia

Question 7

Which instrument is Galileo famous for making more efficient?

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Telescope

Question 8

The logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas is called the

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Scientific Method

Question 9

A ball and a shoe falling from the same height hit the ground?

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Shoe and Ball hit together

Question 10

He believed in tolerance, reason, freedom of religion and free speech and was jailed for it.

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Voltaire

Question 11

"Man is free, but everywhere he is in chains;" the general will of society works best!

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Rousseau

Question 12

He relied on mathematics and logic to solve problems -- not to trust anything!

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Descartes

Question 13

Who wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"?

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 14

Belief that laws existed to preserve social order, not avenge crimes; no torture in justice!

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Beccaria

Question 15

Hobbes distrusted most humans because of his experience in

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The English Civil War

Question 16

He believed laws existed to preserve the social order.

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Beccaria

Question 17

"Women and men need education to become virtuous and useful in society..."

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Wollstonecraft

Question 18

His law of gravity explained how some physical laws governed motion both on earth and in heaven

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Newton

Question 19

Major change in European thought based on observation and questioning accepted beliefs was the

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Scientific Revolution

Question 20

What was the geocentric theory of the universe?

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The earth was the center of the universe.

Question 21

When was the Enlightenment period?

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Mid-1700s

Question 22

What was the importance of the heliocentric theory?

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Challenged the Catholic Church

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