Age of Enlightenment Quiz/Assessment

The Enlightenment?

• was based upon the assumption that science and reason can explain all things.
• rejected the claims of modern science
• was widely attacked by the royalty and nobility of Europe
• regarded human progress as an impossibility "in this best of all possible worlds

What did Thomas Hobbes believe?

• Humans should hurt other humans
• Humans were naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy
• Humans are all so kind and wonderful
• Humans should go to church every day

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes

John Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people’s natural rights.

• True
• False 

During the Enlightenment, many people placed their faith in ___.

• the church
• the military
• reason
• science

A government leader who has all the power

• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Absolute Monarchy
• Separation of Powers

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness

• Natural Rights
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Divine Right of Kings

This philosopher believed in freedom of speech and freedom of religion

• Montesquieu
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosphers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True
• False

Enlightenment philosopher who believed men and women should be equal

• Voltaire
• Denis Diderot
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Adam Smith