The Enlightenment

Enlightened thinkers believed that _____ could lead them to the truth.

• feeling

• reason

• experiments

• government

According to Montesquieu, the spirit of a republic is

• virtue

• honor

• fear

• rebellion

Many enlightened thinkers thought that reason could solve the problems of ____.

• government

• society

• privilege

• virtue

The center of the Enlightenment was the city of ____.

• Paris

• London

• Rome

• Dublin

In Paris, wealthy women invited writers, artists, and educated nobles to gather in their homes. They called these meetings ____.

• parliament

• congress

• salons

• house parties

This Enlightened thinker believed that separating powers within the government kept any one branch from gaining too much power.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Which Enlightened thinker believed in a social contract between the government and those being governed?

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Newton

Which is NOT a goal of enlightened thinkers during the Age of Reason?

• They wanted people to remain uneducated and let the government do the thinking for them.

• They wanted to improve the way people lived.

• They wanted people to think clearly and logically without letting their feelings guide them.

• They wanted to use scientific reasoning to examine every part of society.

Having a belief in reasoning; moving away from ignorance is _____

• predictible

• reason

• enlightened

• contract

______ discovered a law that made Europeans begin to use scientific reasoning.

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Newton

• Voltaire