Enlightenment

The term “enlightenment” was first used by

• Galileo Galilei
• Immanuel Kant
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Sir Francis Bacon

“I think, therefore I am” was expressed by

• Rene Descartes
• William Shakespeare
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Thomas Hobbes
• None of the above

The most famous satirist among the philosophes was

• Thomas Paine
• John Locke
• Condorcet
• Diderot
• Voltaire

Who wrote The Social Contract?

• Rene Descartes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Francis Bacon
• Thomas Paine
• Thomas Hobbes

Whose ideas provided the basis for the theory of the “separation of powers?”

• Condorcet
• Frederick the Great
• Edmund Burke
• Charles II
• Montesquieu

What woman originated the salon?

• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Madame de Pompadourr
• Catherine the Great
• Olympe de Gouges
• Maria Theresa

One of the most important issues to Mary Wollstonecraft was

• the right to life, liberty, and property
• universal voting rights
• the right to bear children
• the role of women in the courts
• the education of women

Which statement best describes the view of Thomas Hobbes?

• Democracy is the best form of government.
• Monarchs rule by divine right.
• People need strong authoritarian rulers.
• Humans are by nature rational.
• All monarchies should be abolished.

What publication was a major achievement for the philosphes?

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man
• The Social Contract
• Treatise on Civil Government
• Encyclopédie
• Candide

In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was influenced by

• Hobbes and Locke
• Locke and Montesquieu
• Montesquieu and Rousseau
• Locke and Descartes
• Voltaire and Rousseau