The Enlightenment Thinkers
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Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Diderot, Voltaire, and Rosseau
Questions and Answers
- 1.
Who wrote Candide?
- 2.
Who believed people are born inherently good, independent, and equal?
- 3.
What did Jean-Jacques Roussea write?
- A.
Spirit of the Laws
- B.
Philosophical Dictionary
- C.
Candide
- D.
The Social Contract
Correct Answer
D. The Social Contract -
- 4.
Thomas Hobbes wrote the Leviathan.
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
- 5.
Who believed in "tabula rasa"?
Correct Answer
John Locke
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locke
Locke - 6.
Who believed life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short?
Correct Answer
Thomas Hobbes
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Hobbes - 7.
About Diderot:
- A.
Materialism is unhealthy
- B.
Wrote Encyclopedia
- C.
Attacked theory of divine right
- D.
Writing criticized the church, government, slave trade, torture, taxes, & war
- E.
British
- F.
Supported deism
- G.
Wrote Candide
Correct Answer(s)
A. Materialism is unhealthy
B. Wrote Encyclopedia
D. Writing criticized the church, government, slave trade, torture, taxes, & war
F. Supported deism -
- 8.
Who believed the British had nearly perfect form of government?
Correct Answer(s)
Montesquieu
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Baron de Montesquieu - 9.
Was Candide a satire of government, bigotry, etc?
- A.
True
- B.
False
Correct Answer
A. True -
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