Pre-Aice Enlightenment Test

John Locke had the idea of natural law, which is also referred to as natural rights. What are these rights?

• to vote

• Life, liberty and property

• freedom of speech and religion

• freedom to bear arms

Montesquieu's idea that political power should be divided into 3 branches - legislative, executive and judicial.

• separation of powers

• federalism

• checks and balances

• self-government

A period in European history that emphasized education and using logic to improve people's lives. Before this, superstition was used to explain the world.

• Enlightenment

• New Age

• Holocaust

• 20th Century

TRUE OR FALSE: HOBBES BELIEVED THE BEST TYPE OF GOVERNMENT WAS A MONARCHY. (RULE BY KING OR QUEEN)

• TRUE

• FALSE

An Unlimited Government where the king or queen have unlimited power

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

Philosopher who believed in Popular sovereignty

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

• Reformation

• Glorious Revolution

• Renaissance

• Scientific Revolution.

Philosophers of the Enlightenment wanted to use __________ in all areas of life.

• A. government
• B. economics
• C. politics
• D. reason

______________________ believed in religious freedom and tolerance.

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

Fill in the blank.

All monarchies have one leader, but in an absolute monarchy, that leader has _______ of the power. They are not controlled by anyone else

• all

• some

• none

• a little bit