Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Test

What provided a place for social gatherings in which artists and thinkers exchanged ideas?

• library

• center

• salon

• classrooms

Who was the French satirist who targeted the clergy, the rich, the gov't, and wrote on free speech?

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

• Wollstonecraft

• Rousseau

The new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power to solve problems

• neoclassicism

• natural rights

• baroque

• enlightenment

Who believed that only an absolute monarchy can ensure an orderly society?

• Beccaria

• Hobbes

• Wollstonecraft

• Bacon

Who wrote "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience"?

• Beccaria

• Hobbes

• Wollstonecraft

• Bacon

Who are philosophers who believed that people could use reason to fix social problems?

• Doctors

• politicians

• philosophes

• priests

The idea of everyone having a right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is based on the ideas of whom?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Cesare Beccaria

• John Locke

Who believed that knowledge be based on experimentation and observation in the scientific revolution?

• Beccaria

• Wollstonecraft

• Hobbes

• Bacon

Who was the French enlightenment thinker who believed that people are basically good?

• Rousseau

• George III

• Montesquieu

• Diderot

What is an agreement by which people give up their natural state for an organized society?

• social agreement

• social contract

• covenant

• natural right