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WorksheetsEnlightenment Thinkers
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which enlightenment thinker believed that an absolute government is needed to keep order because people were born "wicked and brutish"?
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.
Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?
a)
Montesquieu
b)
Rousseau
c)
Hobbes
d)
Voltaire
6.
Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are _______________.
a)
pure and innocent
b)
selfish and wicked
7.
Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Rousseau
c)
Wollstonecraft
d)
Hobbes
8.
Which of the following statements would most likely have been made by Voltaire?
a)
"People should not be afraid to speak their minds."
b)
"The government is made to protect our natural rights."
c)
"Trials should not be private."
d)
"The king needs absolute power."
9.
Why did Thomas Hobbes believe that people needed to be governed by a ruler with absolute power?
a)
because the ruler will share the power with the people
b)
because people couldn't be trusted to govern themselves
c)
because legislators could not make good laws
d)
because monarchs could not enforce laws themselves
10.
This image is most closely related to which thinker?
a)
Voltaire
b)
Hobbes
c)
Locke
d)
Montesquieu
11.
This image is most closely related to which thinker?
a)
Montesquieu
b)
Locke
c)
Beccaria
d)
Hobbes
12.
A "Social Contract" is an agreement between a ruler and who?
a)
Monarchy
b)
Dictator
c)
Citizens
d)
Aliens
13.
Enlightenment thinkers/philosophers would meet at this place to talk and discuss ways of fixing the problems of the monarchy?
a)
Courthouse
b)
A salon
c)
A Saloon
d)
School
14.
Who believed that capital punishment should be illegal?
a)
Beccaria
b)
John Locke
c)
Jean Jaque Rousseau
d)
Thomas Hobbs
15.
If the king breaks his promise to respect the rights of his individual subjects
a)
they have the right to rename the country
b)
they have the right to become king
c)
they have the right to leave the country
d)
they have the right to rebel against his authority
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