Question

Select all choices that apply.
1.

(20 pts)
Mark the statement if it is accurate about the Glorious Revolution.


A.
Protestant leaders were upset with James II for appointing Catholics to high positions in the army, the government, and leading universities.


B.
James II consulted Parliament heavily on most issues affecting the English government.


C.
One reason for referring to the overthrow of the king as “glorious” was that almost no blood was shed.


D.
English Protestant leaders asked William and Mary to come to England and take over the throne.

Answer 1

Select all choices that apply.
2.

(20 pts)
Mark the statement if it is accurate about the Glorious Revolution.


A.
After James II was overthrown, William and Mary became the rulers of England.


B.
William and Mary refused to accept the Bill of Rights drawn up by Parliament.


C.
The Bill of Rights restricted the powers of the king and increased the power of Parliament.

Answer 2

3.

(20 pts)

The Scientific Revolution’s advances in knowledge about the physical world led philosophers and other thinkers to believe that if reason structured the physical world, then reason might also be found in the world of human activity and government.



A.
True


B.
False

Answer 3

4.

(20 pts)
What do you call a person who maintains that God created the universe and its natural laws, but God does not interfere with those natural laws?


A.
despot


B.
deist


C.
Huguenot


D.
philosophe

Answer 4

5.

(20 pts)
What do we call the eighteenth century thinkers who believed that wisdom, reason, and knowledge could bring justice, equality, and freedom?


A.
philosophes


B.
despots


C.
Deists


D.
treatises