Enlightenment Thinkers

Which enlightenment thinker believed that an absolute government is needed to keep order because people were born "wicked and brutish"?

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Rousseau
• Beccaria

Who believed in a social contract between the people and the government in which people gave up some freedom in order to have their rights protected?

• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes

Who believed the government should protect a person's three natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

• Rousseau
• Beccaria
• Wollstonecraft
• Locke

Who believed that women's education should be the same as men's?

• Rousseau
• Wollstonecraft
• Locke
• Hobbes

Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?

• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes
• Voltaire

Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are _______________.

• pure and innocent
• selfish and wicked

Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?

• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Wollstonecraft
• Hobbes

Which of the following statements would most likely have been made by Voltaire?

• "People should not be afraid to speak their minds."
• "The government is made to protect our natural rights."
• "Trials should not be private."
• "The king needs absolute power."

Why did Thomas Hobbes believe that people needed to be governed by a ruler with absolute power?

• because the ruler will share the power with the people
• because people couldn't be trusted to govern themselves
• because legislators could not make good laws
• because monarchs could not enforce laws themselves

This image is most closely related to which thinker?

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu