MCQs of History – The Enlightment Era

________ is NOT included in foundational principles of the Enlightement.

The event of _______ best depicts the shift away from monarchical rules.

______ had the most influence on the work =s of Comenius and Grotius.

Grotius is widely accclaimed for_______.

Thomas Hobbes is of the opinion that all human beings are inherintly ______.

Hobbes prefers ______ as a form of government.

According to Hobbes, innate humman faculty of _______ makes natural want to escape the state of nature.

The philosophical movement ______ was Hume-associated.

King Louis XiV of France died on_______.

The Voltaire’s stance on religon is best described as_______.

Montesquieu’s political work was greatly influenced by the writings of________.

The ‘Encyclopedie’ ultimately encompassed_______ volumes.

Rousseau preferred _______ as the form of government.

The direction of the Enlightment was charged by Romanticism by emphassing on________.

_______ is the best description of the German Enlightment.

The religion had______ importance into German Enlightement compared to the French Enlightement?

The correct choronological order for the publishing of the listed works is_________.

The ‘Seturm und Drang’ movement took place in_________.

_______ is most closely associated with the Sturm and Drang movement.

_______ is credited with formulating an inductive of discovery.

Major devel;opments were made in the field of astronomy mainly due to_______.

________ is not a reason for the start of the Enlightement.

The group of ________ consists of exclusively English thinkers.

In the Glorious Revolution _______ was over thrown.

During the Glorious Revolution _______ ascended to thronr.

The most common name for English King is _______.

In France, philosophers were mostly________.

______ best describes the focus of Montesquies ‘The Spirit of Laws’.

Montesquieu later developed the theory that_______.

______ did Not help dispere the Enlightement through out france.

IN Rousseau,s ideal world, a civilisation would be governed by________.

Nicholas Breakspare became a ________; the act no other Enlightement has done since.

Which group contains only the works of Roussaeu?

Three laws of motion were established by________.

_______ was responsible for the discovery of calculus.

The credit for combining the schools of algebra anf geomatery goes to_______.

How did kant feel about reason?

Which of the following lists contains only German nobles?

All of the following were factors that hindered in German Enlightement except_________.

The main plot device in Faust is ________.

_______ musical period corresponded most closely with the Enlightement.

The famous Baroque copmposer ______ was known during his life primary as an against.

_______ first proposed the idea of replacing mercantilism with a natural order of trade.

Smith’s pivotal economic work was_______.

Becaria sought reforms in the field of ________.

Smith believed all of the following about free trade except________.

_______ was NOT a factor is starting the industrial Revolution.

_______ was an immediate downside of the industrial Revolution.

All of the following contributed to the end of the Enlightement except________.

Paine’s Common Sense encouraged_______.