Enlightenment and Natural Rights Quiz

What best describes Natural Rights?

• Who you are in Nature

• Rights you are born with.

• Option 3

• Rights the Government gives you

The Enlightenment emphasized what?

• light bulbs, fire arms, and cotton socks

• getting your hair done at salons.

• reason, science, and individual thinking.

• religious superstition to explain the origins of the Universe.

Enlightenment thinkers used Salons as what?

• Small time theater.

• A place to listen to music.

• Establishment to get their hair done.

• Gathering rooms for discussing ideas.

John Locke believed your natural rights were what?

• To be ruled

• Accumulate power

• Life, liberty, and property

• People are selfish and will constantly be at war

What did Thomas Hobbes believe humans' state of nature was?

• People are selfish and will constantly be at war

• People are terrified of each other and avoid conflict at all cost

• People are naturally good, but become corrupted by society

• Having no rules and no one in charge

What is agreed to in John Locke's Social Contract?

• Society has only the rights given to them by the government

• Society will give up liberty and property to the Government for protection

• The Government and Society will protect each other

• Society does not need a government

Which Philosopher is responsible for Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances?

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Montesquieu

The ideas of Locke and Rousseau are found MOST easily in which of these documents?

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Communist Manifesto

• The United Nation's Charter

• The Declaration of Independence

During the Enlightenment, many people placed their faith in ___.

• reason

• tradition

• superstition

• mythology

This philosopher believed in freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Voltaire