Enlightenment Quiz

Locke believed that people enjoyed certain basic rights under natural law: 

• life, liberty, and property
• life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapinness 
• life, liberty, and privacy
• life, liberty, and people

If the king breaks his promise to respect the rights of his individual subjects 

• they have the right to rename the country 
• they have the right to become king 
• they have the right to leave the country
• they have the right to rebel against his authority

 Montesquieu believed in 

• Life, Liberty and Property
• Checks and Balances 
• Separation of Powers
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

What was the period of Enlightenment?

• a period of new ideas, one of which questioned the power of the government

• a period of death and disease

What is a social contract?

• an agreement between all the leaders of the country

• an agreement between the people of the country and the government

• an agreement between you and a record label to release your next musical hit

Natural law is defined as

• laws made by the government

• laws that are from natural rights, given to you at birth

Why did Montesquieu believe the powers of the government should be separated?

• It would keep government leaders from becoming too powerful

• Because of divine right, government should be separated into more than one branch

• Because Locke's social contract stated that government by one ruler went against natural law

• Because running a government was too much for one person to handle

What is the term for "government by the will of the people"?

• • A. rule of law

• • B. popular sovereignty

• • C. individual rights

• • D. national sovereignty

All of the Enlightenment thinkers except for one wanted to prevent a tyrannical ruler with absolute power from controlling the people. Which thinker below is the exception?

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Ethical ideas of justice, individual worth and personal responsibility are ideals embedded in our constitutional republic from what ancient influence?

• Ancient Rome

• Judeo-Christian tradition

• Ancient Greece

• The colonists