Enlightenment Quiz 2025

Scholars began to challenge long held beliefs about science, religion, and government. The thinkers were inspired by what two scientists?

• Galileo and Vesalius
• Galileo and Copernicus
• Galileo and Newton
• Galileo and Boyd

In France, thinkers were called ________________________.

• philosophes
• pylories
• pablums
• pachistimas

Informal meetings where philosophers gathered in France were called ____________________.

• salvos
• saloons
• sigmas
• salons

Philosophers all shared a trust in _____________ and _____________ as the best way of understanding progress.

• reason and order
• reason and observation
• reason and objects
• reason and opposition

Which statement is most similar to Thomas Hobbes's beliefs about leadership?

• People can rule themselves with order
• People make decisions based on the common good
• People need an absolute ruler because they are selfish and greedy by nature
• Individualism is key to a leader's

The author of Leviathan is _________________.

• Locke
• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Montesquieu

John Locke denied the concept of ____________--.

• divine right
• social contract
• separation of powers
• checks and balances

John Locke believed the true basis of government is a _________ ________.

• social agreement
• social power
• social spirit
• social contract

According to Montesquieu, the best way to protect human rights is to ___________________________.

• divide the power among two branches of government
• divide the power among three branches of government
• divide the power among four branches of government
• not to divide the power among any branches of government

The philosopher who developed the idea of separation of powers was ____________________.

• Locke
• Hobbes
• Voltaire
• Montesquieu