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Age of Enlightenment and Reason
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1
Who said, "discontented under monarchy call it tyranny... grieved under a democracy and call it anarchy."?
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Bossuet
Montesquieu
2
Select all the ideas championed by Voltaire.
Freedom of
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
Freedom of economy.
3
Select all the following entitlements John Locke believed were God given to people.
Liberty
Pursuit of Happiness
Property
Life
4
Which time period had the greatest social, cultural, and intellectual influence on the Age of Enlightenment?
The Middle Ages
Age of Revolution and Change
The Renaissance
Protestant Reformation
5
Who supported the idea that monarchs were given their power from God thus had the authority to rule?
Bossuet
Locke
Hobbes
Beccaria
6
Beccaria put forth some of the first modern arguments for the death penalty.
True
False
7
Olympe de Gouges was early women's rights advocate who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men
True
False
8
What is the name of the following idea: god or a deity gives the right for monarchs or leaders to rule?
Absolutism
Divine Right
Federalism
God Given
9
Thomas Hobbes believed in government control because people...
spend too much money on frivolous goods.
are easily manipulated by other people.
give into their most base desires.
love to fight wars for power and control.
10
Prior to the Age of Enlightenment and Reason, Europe was going through a period of progress and modernization known as
Golden Age
Renaissance
Middle Ages
Scientific Revolution
11
In the 1600 and 1700s the Age of Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the World.
False
True
12
Much of the wealth of European monarchies came from...
ownership of land.
investment in the stock-market.
their colonies.
taxes on the peasants.
13
Who said, "If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism"?
Locke
Voltaire
Rousseau
Montesquieu
14
Separation of powers works because it allows for what between the different branches of government?
Decision making
Checks and balances
Communication
Consent of the governed
15
Who said, "only way [men] can preserve themselves... [is] uniting them so they are directed by a single motive"?
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Locke
Rousseau
16
Denis Diderot was responsible for the publication of the first...
cookbook.
encyclopedia.
dictionary.
thesaurus.
17
Within John Locke's social contract he emphasized what most of all?
Family
Government Power
Individuals
Community
18
What was Montesquieu's main idea?
Freedom of religion
Separation of powers
Freedom of speech
Natural rights
19
Who said, "Make [women] free, and they will quickly become wise and virtuous."
Voltaire
Rousseau
Locke
Wollstonecraft
20
John Locke believed everyone was born with a blank slate and their experiences determined their perceptions.
True
False
21
What was the idea behind Rousseau's noble savage?
It is important never to forgot your ancestral roots of early mankind.
People are born naturally good but, overtime they are corrupted by society.
People have always been brutish however, they are better of than animals.
The islanders of the Pacific were kingly yet utter savages.
22
Who believed that without the support of society the government will never rule and the government must support people?
Wollstonecraft
Hobbes
Beccaria
Rousseau
23
Thomas Hobbes believed that the life of man was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
False
True
24
One of the most famous mathematicians of the Scientific Revolution who formulated laws of gravity and motion was...
Francis Bacon
Isaac Newton
Renee Descartes
Denis Diderot
25
Who said, "When the legislative and executive powers are the same person, or are the judge, there can be no liberty?
Hobbes
Rousseau
Bossuet
Montesquieu
26
The English Civil War had an influential role prior to the Age of Enlightenment and Reason as it...
forced the monarchy to take greater control over its citizenry.
led to the first democratically established government.
led to a population shortage which made the peasantry more important.
caused people to question the role of government.
27
What type of government would Rousseau most likely support?
Aristocracy
Republic
Limited monarchy
Oligarchy
28
Within Rousseau's social contract he emphasized what most of all?
Government Power
Community
Family
Individuals
29
Who said, "no government can have a right to obedience from a people who have not freely consented to it"?
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
John Locke
30
Mary Wollstonecraft believed that in which way women could find equality in society?
Marriage
Political leadership
Job Training
Education
31
Rene Descartes is considered one of the founders of...
stoicism.
irrationalism.
neoplatonism.
rationalism.
32
Who said, "[God] gave His power to kings only to ensure the public welfare and to be the support of the people...."?
Voltaire
Locke
Bossuet
Hobbes
33
Which type of government would Hobbes most likely support?
Democracy
Anarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Republic
34
Sir Francis Bacon was famous for the development of...
rationalism.
Socratic Seminars.
pork in dessert.
the Scientific Method.
35
Within Hobbes' social contract he emphasized what most of all?
Government Power
Family
Community
Individuals
36
Who said, "civil death in a condemned man has the same effects as a real death"?
Beccaria
Bossuet
Hobbes
Locke
37
John Locke believed that everyone was born with...
Six Toes
Deniable Rights
Natural Rights
Alienable Rights
38
Which type of government would Locke most likely support?
Aristocracy
Democracy
Anarchy
Oligarchy
39
Deists believe in which of the following ideas (select more than one)?
Purely faith based religion
Reason
Observation
Rejection of religious revelation
40
Which government would Bossuet most likely support?
Republic
Democracy
Absolutist
Constitutional Monarchy