Ch.22, (A,B) The Enlightenment

Mary Astell wrote about the lack of ____ opportunities for girls, and the unequal relationship in ____ between men and women.

• property / government

• medical / marriage

• educational / paychecks

• educational / marriage

Time period called "The Enlightenment" was also known as the "_______".

• Age of Reason

• Age of Knowledge

• Age of Revolution

• Age of Knowing

“REASON” is defined as...

• good judegement

• logic

• sound sense

• all of the above

Enlightenment thinkers are not active revolutionaries out in the streets marching. They were encouraging REFORMS through their WRITINGS, but their IDEAS will inspire a few revolutions.

• True

• False

"People should give up their rights / freedoms to the government in exchange for a safe and organized society". Thomas Hobbes called this the _______.

• Social Contract

• Social Right

• Social Monarchy

• Divine Contract

Because we are human, we are entitled to a few basic rights, given to us by nature or a God or some higher power and all humans understand these basic rights. Locke called these __________.

• Religious Rights

• Economic Rights

• Social Rights

• Natural Rights

Many freedoms, in many countries today, are a result of enlightenment thinking.

• True

• False

When a writer authors a book, or any piece of writing, using a fake name, that fake name is called a _______.

• Voltaire

• synonym

• antonym

• pen-name

• super-name

Who said..... “If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a government, how comes it to be so in a family?

• Mary Astell

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Mary McAuley

Which Enlightenment writer/thinker believes most people are UNEDUCATED / UNINFORMED / SIMPLE / DUMB?

• Voltaire

• Mary Astell