AMSCO 5.1

Who is known for emphasizing empirical methods of scientific inquiry?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Francis Bacon

• René Descartes

Which philosopher argued that people's natural state was to live in a bleak world and gave up some rights to a strong central government in return for law and order?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Francis Bacon

• René Descartes

Who is best known for his social satire 'Candide' and advocated for civil liberties?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

Which thinker proposed that a child was born with a mind like a 'blank slate' waiting to be filled with knowledge?

• René Descartes

• Francis Bacon

• John Locke

• Voltaire

Who responded to mercantilism by calling for freer trade and advocated for laissez-faire economics?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Adam Smith

Which movement advocated for public or direct worker ownership of the means of production?

• Utopian Socialism

• Classical Liberalism

• Abolitionism

• Feminism

Who was a leading figure in the movement for women's rights and equality based on Enlightenment ideas?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucretia Mott

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Olympe de Gouges

Which movement aimed to end the Atlantic slave trade and free all enslaved people?

• Utopian Socialism

• Feminism

• Abolitionism

• Zionism

Which movement emerged with the desire of Jews to establish an independent homeland where their ancestors had lived in the Middle East?

• Anti-Semitism

• Zionism

• Abolitionism

• Feminism

Who is known for advocating for religious liberty and judicial reform, and corresponded with heads of state such as Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire