Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments
Euro History · Unit 4 · Paper 1

Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 33 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 4, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Copernicus

2

Mary Wollstonecraft

3

Aristotelian-Ptolemaic cosmology

4

Enlightened absolutism

5

Francis Bacon

6

Enlightenment

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Galileo

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Catherine the Great as enlightened absolutist

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Public sphere

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Deism

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Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

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Cameralism

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Scientific Revolution

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Voltaire

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Stellar parallax

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Salons

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

LONG ESSAY QUESTION. Evaluate the extent to which the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment changed European attitudes toward authority in the period from 1550 to 1789.

In your response you should do the following: Respond to the prompt with a historically defensible thesis or claim that establishes a line of reasoning. Describe a broader historical context relevant to the prompt. Support an argument in response to the prompt using specific and relevant examples of evidence. Use historical reasoning to frame or structure an argument that addresses the prompt. Demonstrate a complex understanding of the historical development that is the focus of the prompt.