Grade 9 · World history
This quiz helps revise “The Enlightenment” in World history for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: Key Thinkers, Ideas of the Age, Reform in Print, Enlightened Rulers, Impact and Legacy. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
The portrait shows which French writer who wrote the philosophical tale Candide in 1759?
The portrait shows which English philosopher who published Two Treatises of Government in 1690?
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In the gameWhat human faculty did Enlightenment thinkers place above blind obedience to tradition and superstition?
What are rights called when people possess them by birth rather than receiving them from government?
What principle supports peaceful…
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The portrait shows which French writer who was the chief editor of the Encyclopédie?
Which Scottish thinker published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, a foundational work of classical political economy?
Which British author published…
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In the gameWhat is rule called when a monarch keeps full authority but pursues rational reforms from above?
Which Prussian king, who ruled from 1740 to 1786, reformed the state while retaining royal power?
Which Russian empress issued…
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In the gameWhich American document of 1776 proclaimed rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Which 1787 U.S. document established legislative, executive, and judicial branches of federal government?
Which French document of…
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In the gameWhich Italian grand duchy…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.