Week 7 Quiz: Enlightenment

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

French Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech and religion

• Voltaire

• Denis Diderot

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

How did Hobbes view human nature?

• We are inquisitive and industrious.

• We are naturally selfish and hungry for power

• We are naturally ignorant

• We are naturally kind and helpful to others

Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to overthrow their government and create a new one if their monarch did not protect their rights/interests (Hint: he also argued that everyone is born with natural rights like life, liberty, and property)?

• Montesquire
• Locke
• Voltaire
• Rousseau

According to what you have learned, who said women should be treated as equal as men?

• Hillary Clinton

• Barbara Walters

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared and checked each other's power.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

The procedure for testing theories that starts with a question

• Methods of Operation
• Scientific Method
• Procedural Operations
• Steps in a process 

Which of the following best explains the effect of the Scientific Revolution on traditional religious beliefs?

• People now looked to religion to explain the world around them.

• People now looked to their kings to explain the world around them.

• People used reason and logic to explain the world

• Money makes the world go round

A place where Enlightenment thinkers got together to discuss Enlightenment ideas

• divine right

• salon

• laissez-faire

• bourgeoisie