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History/Social Studies Grade10 Lesson 1  Sample Test  Questions


Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 
Which of these statements is NOT characteristic of Enlightenment thinking?

(Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System)
a.
Reason is the most valuable tool for scientific discovery.
b.
The universe runs according to understandable natural laws.
c.
People can and should make society better.
d.
God intervenes frequently and unpredictably in human affairs.
 

 2. 
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau would all most likely agree with which statement?
a.
The state should maintain a strong military to ensure domestic order.
b.
The state should share political power with the church.
c.
The state should exist for the welfare of all people.
d.
The state should limit free speech for the sake of order.
 

 3. 
Base your answer to this question on the quotation below.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness . . . “

This statement best expresses the philosophy of _______.

(New York Regents)
a.
Adam Smith
c.
Thomas Hobbes
b.
Karl Marx
d.
John Locke
 

 4. 
The writings of the 18th-century French philosophers Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire influenced the _______.

(New York Regents)
a.
policies of the enlightened despots
b.
start of the Neolithic Revolution
c.
success of the German unification movement
d.
spread of imperialism to Africa and Asia
 

 5. 
Base your answer to this question on the passage below.

“[When] the legislature shall . . . grasp [for] themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over their lives, liberties, and estates of the people, . . . they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it [passes] to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty . . . “
                        --John Locke, Two Treatises on Civil Government


Which idea is expressed in this passage?

(NY Regents)
a.
The people should give up their liberty to create an orderly society.
b.
People have the right to rebel if their natural rights are denied.
c.
Governments should be obeyed regardless of their actions.
d.
Liberty can only be guaranteed in a direct democracy.
 



 
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