The Enlightenment Quiz

Famous economists, defender of free-markets, author of The Wealth of Nations.

• Adam Smith
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Thomas Hobbes

Which one does not relate to the others?

• Montesquieu
• Smith
• Rousseau
• Hobbes

What is the heliocentric theory?

• There is no sun
• The sun is smaller than the Earth
• The sun is the center of the universe
• There is no moon

Which of these Enlightenment thinkers developed theories and ideas about the Law System?

• John Locke
• Mary Wallstonecraft
• William Blackstone
• Diderot

This was an 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals, aiming to apply reason to all endeavors.

• Reformation
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment

What did Mary Wollstonecraft write?

• The U.S. Declaration of Independence
• Vindication of the Rights of Women
• The French Constitution
• Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems

Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights (Life, liberty, property):

• Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau

Adam Smith’s doctrine that maintains that the state should not intervene in economics, from his book Wealth of Nations, is called ______.

• Laissez-faire
• Socialism
• Mercantilism
• Imperialism

The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.

• a natural law
• checks and balances
• a social contract
• laissez-faire

Barometers, thermometers, and microscopes helped improve...?

• The age of exploration
• The ability to study nature
• Nature
• The environment