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The Enlightenment Era Quiz

The Age of Enlightenment was an era that lasted roughly throughout the 18th century and promoted ideals of freedom, rationality, as well as societal and scientific progress. How much do you know about it?
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Patrick Henry quote: "Give me liberty, or give me ___!"
Death
Königsberg philosopher and authority on trolley dilemmas
Immanuel Kant
What begins with, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."?
The United States Declaration of Independence
"Candide" author and critic of religion
Voltaire
Prussian king who was called an "enlightened monarch"
Frederick the Great
What, along with egalité and fraternité, was the motto of the French revolution?
Liberté
Important enlightenment issue: separation between church and ___
State
Opposed to the Catholic Church, French revolutionists favored a "Cult of ..."?
Reason
Latin phrase that roughly translates as, "Dare to know"
Sapere aude
Frankfurt school philosophers who authored "Dialectic of Enlightenment"
Theodor W. Adorno
Max Horkheimer
Proposed a theory of gravity and created calculus
Isaac Newton
Group that wasn't included in the 1789 French Declaration of Rights
Women
1755 natural disaster that struck Lisbon and shattered belief in a benevolent God
Earthquake
He crowned himself French emperor but picked up enlightenment ideas
Napoléon Bonaparte
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Dec 22, 2018
Kant wrote a short and easy to read summary on the question, "What is Enlightenment?". He argues that most people prefer to delegate thinking to higher authorities out of laziness and cowardice. Enlightenment then is man's escape from self-imposed immaturity.