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.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 23 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 4, Paper 2” 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 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted

Francis Bacon

Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

Scientific Revolution

René Descartes

Diderot's Encyclopédie

Enlightened absolutism

Rousseau, The Social Contract

Cameralism

Limits of the Enlightenment

Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Isaac Newton, Principia

Mary Wollstonecraft

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Why the Scientific Revolution mattered beyond science

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Tycho Brahe and Kepler

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Public sphere

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Joseph II

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Short Answer Question (SAQ):

Briefly describe ONE significant consequence of the Protestant Reformation on the political landscape of Europe in the 16th or 17th century.

Briefly describe ONE significant social or cultural consequence of the Protestant Reformation.

Briefly explain how the Catholic Church responded to the Protestant Reformation.