Test your basic knowledge |

Enlightenment Terms

Subject : history
Instructions:
  • Answer 40 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change






2. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom






3. A government whose power is defined and limited by law






4. Rule or law that governs human nature






5. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)






6. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change






7. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony






8. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom






9. Rule or law that governs human nature






10. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)






11. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)






12. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






13. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas






14. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas






15. A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in Which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world






16. A government whose power is defined and limited by law






17. A system of government in which a small group holds power






18. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)






19. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






20. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






21. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people






22. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)






23. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society






24. A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in Which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world






25. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society






26. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots






27. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots






28. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos






29. Restricting access to ideas and information






30. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos






31. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people






32. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)






33. A system of government in which a small group holds power






34. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony






35. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics






36. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






37. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics






38. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)






39. Restricting access to ideas and information






40. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)