Enlightenment Era Quiz

What is the concept of a representative government?

• The idea that citizens can elect delegates (representatives) to make laws for them.

• The idea that the monarch/king can send representatives to places to share his ideas.

• The idea that citizens can elect candidates to assist the monarch/king in making laws.

• The idea that citizens can send suggestions to the monarch/king for the ruler to consider.

John Locke believed in a social contract.

• where people should overthrow any government that infringes on basic human rights.

• between employees and employers.

• where parents and grandparents have to spoil kids.

• where rulers should live in manors.

The Philosophers believed:

• People have basic human rights regardless of class

• That eating bran is healthy

• That integrity is important

• That the king is the ultimate authority

What economic system was promoted by Adam Smith?

• Laissez-Faire

• The Social Contract

• Social Contract

• Absolute Monarchy

Social gatherings at which writers, artists, and thinkers discuss ideas are called?

• Salons

• Nail Salon

• Reason

• Voltaire

Enlightenment

• A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions.

• A French man who believed that human beings are naturally good and free, and can rely on their instincts. The government should exist to protect the common good, and be a democracy.

• The first ten amendments to the Constitution.

• An English mathematician and scientist who invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion. He was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple.

According to Rousseau, what corrupted people's natural goodness?

• Society

• The Bill of Rights

• The government, church, and nobility

• Russian Constitution and code of laws

What is the Enlightenment idea in which people enter into an agreement with the government?

• Social Contract

• Natural Laws

• Common Sense

• Social Contact

Before the Enlightenment, most societies on Earth had which type of government?

• Monarchy

• Direct Democracy

• Democratic Republic

• Communism

The Enlightenment took place mostly during which century?

• 1700s

• 1600s

• 1500s

• 1800s