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- 1. Multiple ChoiceEnlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?power and privilegemoney and famegood looks and charmreason and logic
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich amendment gives us freedom of speech , religion and press?FirstSecondThirdFourth
- 3. Multiple Choice
French Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech and religion
Voltaire
Denis Diderot
Mary Wollstonecraft
John Locke
- 4. Multiple ChoiceEnlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.John LockeMontesquieuRousseauVoltaire
- 5. Multiple Choice
How did Hobbes view human nature?
We are inquisitive and industrious.
We are naturally selfish and quick to fight.
We are naturally ignorant
We are naturally kind and helpful to others
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhich Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to abolish their government and create a new one?MontesquireLockeVoltaireRousseau
- 7. Multiple Choice
The rights of life, liberty, and property are called:
Unalienable Rights
Essential Rights
Natural Rights
Original Rights
- 8. Multiple Choice
According to what you have learned, who said women should be treated as equal as men?
Hillary Clinton
Barbara Walters
Mary Wollstonecraft
Voltaire
- 9. Multiple ChoiceEnlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.John LockeMontesquieuRousseauVoltaire
- 10. Multiple ChoiceEnlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.TrueFalse
- 11. Multiple ChoiceLocke believed that a government's power came from its ___________________.A. armyB. powerC. peopleD. science
- 12. Multiple Choice
How did the ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers most influence popular revolutions in France and in the United States?
by explaining that society could be improved through scientific discovery
by challenging the belief in the divine right of kings
by stressing the importance of military strength
by examining other countries as models of self-government
- 13. Multiple Choice
. . . reason, which is that law teaches all mankind, who would but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
John Locke, Two Treatises on Civil Government, 1689
Which concept of the Enlightenment would the passage most likely support?
Truth can be discovered through reasoning and logic.
Humankind can and should improve over time.
People have a right to equality and freedom.
What is natural is also reasonable.
- 14. Multiple Choice
How are the Renaissance and the Enlightenment similar?
produced major cultural changes
limited technological advancements
encouraged traditional values
ignored individual achievements
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