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25 question quiz on the Scientific Revolution & The Enlightenment for my WH project.
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1
Thomas Hobbes expressed his views in a workcalled what?
Leviathan
Philosophy
Book of Views
The Corruption of Human Nature
2
Beccaria said people accused of crimes should receive a fast trial & torture shouldn't be used.
True
False
3
What was the emergence of modern science that transformed views of society and nature?
Scientific Revolution
The Renaissance
Age of Reason
Scientific Emergence
4
What's the movement that stressed reason & the power of individuals to solve problems?
Scientific Revolution
Age of Reason
Enlightenment
The Enlightment
5
Which form European art of the 1600s and early 1700s dominated?
classical
neoclassical
modern art
baroque
6
The Enlightenment began by ideas from English political thinkers in the 1600s. Who were they?
Daquan & Marquis
Voltaire & Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau & Cesare Bonesana Beccaria
Thomas Hobbes & John Locke
7
Who was the enlightenment despot in Austria in the ten year span of 1780 through 1790?
Joseph II
Catherine the Great
Maria Theresa
Frederick the Great
8
Who was the person who fought for women's rights?
CesareBonesana Beccaria
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Catherine the Great
9
Who invents the microscope in 1590?
René Descartes
Zacharias Janssen
IsaacNewton
Francis Bacon
10
The scientific revolution eventually developed into a new approach of science called what?
scientific thinking
observation
hypothesis
scientific method
11
Peter, the heir to the Russian throne, was mentally ill. Who took advantage of him to be Queen?
Queen Elizebeth
Elizabeth of Russia
Catherine the Great
Bloody Mary
12
What does neoclassical mean?
a new social class
new classical
classiness
not classical
13
The philosophes tried to convince monarchs torule justly. The ones who did became known as who?
enlightenment despots
Justly Leaders
President
enlightenment despotes
14
In their large drawing rooms hostesses held regular social gatherings called what?
a meeting
salons
baroque
forum
15
Who created the set of books called the Encyclopedia?
Denis Diderot
Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin
Michael Encyclopedia
Ludwig van Beethoven
16
Who was the Dutch scientist who observed bacteria swimming in tooth scrapings by microscope?
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Layvuhnhuk
Evangelista Torricelli
Zacharias Janssen
17
In what year did Copernicus publish the heliocentric theory?
1534
2010
1603
1543
18
Who came up with the heliocentric theory, which overthrew Aristotle's theory, in the 1500's?
Francis Bacon
Nicolaus Copernicus
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
19
Which greek philosopher created the geocentric theory in 4 B.C.?
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Aristotle
Galileo
20
One of the most brilliant & influential philosophes was François Marie Arouet His pen name was?
Jean JacquesRousseau
Voltaire
CesareBonesana Beccaria
Baron de Montesquieu
21
What did Hobbes call the agreement made by people?
social contract
The People's Agreement
government
democracy
22
John Locke said all people are born free and equal, with three natural rights, what were they?
life, property, freedom
life, liberty, and property
life, liberty, and freedom
liberty, freedom, and property
23
In the 1700s, what was the cultural and intellectual capital of Europe?
Germany
Paris
Rome
Greece
24
Which king of Prussia abolished the use of torture? (He was an enlightenment despot).
Peter the Great
Frederick the Great
Franz Joseph Haydn
Joseph II
25
Who was the German mathematician who made his living as an astrologer?
Johannes Kepler
Galileo
Ptolemy
Copernicus
