Enlightenment Practice Quiz

What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?

• natural right

• social contract

• natural law

• divine right

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal

• property rights.

• education.

• voting rights.

• employment opportunities.

Economists who subscribed to Adam Smith’s ideas supported a government policy of

• laissez faire.

• tariffs.

• mercantilism.

• trade regulation.

Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they

• wrote fiction.

• challenged the old order.

• supported traditional ideas.

• wrote in salons.

An enlightened despot was a ruler who

• influenced political and social change.

• gave up absolute power.

• allowed limited voting rights.

• wrote satire to expose corruption.

Which enlightened despot traveled among the peasants in disguise to learn about their problems?

• Catherine the Great

• Frederick the Great

• Maria Theresa

• Joseph II

Because the American colonies were home to diverse religious and ethnic groups,

• the colonists tended to support British taxes.

• the colonists tended to support British royalty.

• social distinctions were more blurred than in Europe.

• the colonists did not feel entitled to the rights of English citizens.

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

• Reformation.

• Scientific Revolution.

• Glorious Revolution.

• Renaissance.

According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is

• a federal republic.

• a theocracy.

• a democracy.

• an absolute monarchy.

The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Diderot