Enlightenment
26 Questions
| Total Attempts: 117
Questions and Answers
- 1.Which thinker thought we have the right to have life, liberty, and property?
- A.
John Locke
- B.
Thomas Hobbes
- C.
Baron de Montesquieu
- D.
Voltaire
- 2.Which thinker thought people were naturally good and became corrupted by society?
- A.
Thomas Hobbes
- B.
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
- C.
Voltaire
- D.
Baron de Montesquieu
- 3.Which thinker thought that people were naturally driven by selfishness and greed?
- A.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- B.
Baron de Montesquieu
- C.
Thomas Hobbes
- D.
John Locke
- 4.Which thinker philosophised freedom of speech and will?
- A.
Jean- Jacques Rousseau
- B.
Thomas Hobbes
- C.
John Locke
- D.
Voltaire
- 5.What is a body of uncharging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct?
- A.
Natural Law
- B.
Social Contract
- C.
Natural Right
- D.
English Bill of Rights
- 6.What is an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits?
- A.
Natural Law
- B.
Social Contract
- C.
Natural Rights
- D.
U.S. Constitution
- 7.What are the rights people have under natural law? For example, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- A.
Natural Laws
- B.
Social Contracts
- C.
Natural Rights
- D.
95 Theses
- 8.Who created the Encyclopedia?
- A.
Denis Diderot
- B.
Mary Wollstonecraft
- C.
Adam Smith
- D.
General Lee
- 9.Who was an eighteenth-century English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights?
- A.
Rosa Parks
- B.
Queen Elizabeth
- C.
Mary Wollstonecraft
- D.
Adam Smith
- 10.A social contract is when people give their rights up to God.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Denis Diderot was a founder of the Encyclopedia.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.Adam Smith is best known for the Theory of Moral Sentiment.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Mary Wollstonecraft was a key figure for women's rights.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.Voltaire believed that people are naturally good, but become corrupted by society.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.John Locke was a big influence behind freedom of speech.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.Natural Laws are rules that govern human nature.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Natural Rights are rights that belong to God.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.All of the philosophers from the Enlightenment are from France.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.All the philosophers had a major impact on our way of life today.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.What is the policy that allows the government to not interfere with business?
- 21.What is an agreement that people give up freedom for protection for the government?
- 22.Who was one of the first women philosophers?
- 23.Which country was center of the Enlightenment?
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