1. Judaism and Christianity share a belief in
A.
B.
C.
D.
monotheism and ethical conduct
a prohibition of the consumption of pork
reincarnation and ethical justice
no work on the Sabbath
2. Which form of government does not involve rule by a group?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Aristocracy
Monarch
Oligarchy
Democracy
3. Who believed that in an ideal society the government should be controlled by a class of
“philosopher kings?”
A.
B.
C.
D.
Plato
Artistotle
Jesus Christ
John Locke
4. What was the international effect of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It abolished slavery throughout the world
It made the idea of governing through a single written constitution popular
It ended the monarchy in England
It caused all nations to establish state religions
5. When a country’s constitution requires the branches of government to remain
independent of each other, it is adhering to the constitutional principal of
A.
B.
C.
D.
popular sovereignty
separation of powers
federalism
social contract
6. Salons helped to spread
A.
B.
C.
D.
the geocentric theory
only ideas of the philosophes
only ideas of patriarchs
Enlightenment thinking
7. The Enlightenment philosopher John Locke argued that life, liberty and property are
A.
B.
C.
D.
economic rights earned in a capitalistic system
social rights guaranteed by the ruling class
natural rights that should be protected by government
political rights to be granted as determined by law
8. In English history, the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right and the Bill of Rights, all
reinforced the concept of
A.
B.
C.
D.
Universal suffrage
Religious toleration
A limited monarchy
A laissez-faire economy
9. What is the significance of the Magna Carta?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It approved money for wars in France
It asserted that the monarch must obey the law
It allowed the monarch to abolish Parliament
It limited the power of the English church
10. The U.S. Constitution divided power between the national government and states as a
A.
B.
C.
D.
Direct democracy
Limited monarchy
Aristocracy
Federal republic
11. America’s Founding Fathers borrowed the idea of separation of powers for the three
branches of government from whom?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Locke
Baron de Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes
12. During the Enlightenment period this popular art form was introduced
A.
B.
C.
D.
Baroque
Rococo
Spumoni
Oil on canvas
13. The English Bill of Rights added all of the following rights except
A.
B.
C.
D.
No cruel punishment
No excessive bail or fines
No excessive taxes
The right to bear arms
14. Thomas Jefferson’s belief that all government power should come from the people is
referred to as
A.
B.
C.
D.
Natural law
Natural rights
Common law
Popular sovereignty
15. German philosopher who coined the term “Enlightenment”
A.
B.
C.
D.
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
Denis Diderot
Immanuel Kant
16. The idea that people are born with certain rights from birth including the rights to life,
liberty and property
A.
B.
C.
D.
Civil rights
Natural rights
Appellate rights
Judicial rights
17. The Roman Emperor set up a commission to collect, revise and organize all laws
which eventually became a body of civil law, also referred to as
A.
B.
C.
D.
Law of the 12 Tablets
Common Law
Justinian’s Code
Moral Law
18. Rousseau’s idea that only government’s that have been freely elected should be able
to impose some controls on people’s behavior
A.
B.
C.
D.
Moral law
Social contract
Popular sovereignty
Common law
19. The Scientific Revolution’s idea that rules are discoverable by reason
A.
B.
C.
D.
Natural Law
Natural Rights
Common Law
Reasonable Law
20. The Enlightenment was a result of the
A.
B.
C.
D.
Scientific Revolution
Reformation
Diaspora
Feudalism
21. Western society embodies this was of thinking
A.
B.
C.
D.
Eastern philosophies
Judeo-Christian tradition
Orthodoxy
Romanticism
22. Monarchs who accepted some social and legal changes recommended by the
philosophes were referred to as
A.
B.
C.
D.
Absolute monarchs
Direct democracies
Enlightened despots
Physiocrats