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WorksheetsEnlightenment Thinkers
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which enlightenment thinker believed that a government is needed to keep order?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Hobbes
c)
Rousseau
d)
Beccaria
2.
Who believed in a social contract between the people and the government in which people gave up some freedom in order to have their rights protected?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Rousseau
d)
Hobbes
3.
Who believed the government should protect a person's three natural rights: life, liberty, and property?
a)
Rousseau
b)
Beccaria
c)
Wollstonecraft
d)
Locke
4.
Who believed that women's education should be the same as men's?
a)
Rousseau
b)
Wollstonecraft
c)
Locke
d)
Hobbes
5.
Beccaria did not support ____________.
a)
education
b)
establishment of government
c)
capital punishment
d)
laws to control social order
6.
Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?
a)
Montesquieu
b)
Rousseau
c)
Hobbes
d)
Voltaire
7.
Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are _______________.
a)
pure and innocent
b)
selfish and wicked
8.
Who believed that a person's punishment should match the seriousness of the crime?
a)
Wollstonecraft
b)
Rousseau
c)
Locke
d)
Beccaria
9.
Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Rousseau
c)
Wollstonecraft
d)
Hobbes
10.
The beliefs of the enlightenment thinkers led to a revolution in France in __________.
a)
1689
b)
1789
c)
1725
d)
1559
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