The Enlightenment Quiz

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

• Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau

What did Thomas Hobbes believe?

• Humans should hurt other humans
• Humans were naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy
• Humans are all so kind and wonderful
• Humans should go to church every day

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes

Which philosopher believed that a government with separation of powers was the best type of government? 

• John Locke 
• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:

• A dictatorship
• A democracy
• An absolute monarchy
• All of these

Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence? 

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

John Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people’s natural rights.

• True
• False 

Thomas Hobbes believed that

• the enlightenment thinkers were naturally silly
• people are naturally greedy and selfish therefore should only be governed by an absolute monarch (king).
• people are for the most part good people but society corrupts us to be bad
• in the tabula rasa theory

During the Enlightenment, many people placed their faith in ___.

• the church
• the military
• reason
• science

Enlightenment ideals had little or no impact on Europe and the rest of the world.

• True
• False