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Question 1

How did the English Civil War affect the Enlightenment?

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The English Civil War caused many people to question the role of government, which sparked the imagination of Enlightenment thinkers.

Question 2

The social contract theory states that

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citizens give up some liberties to government in exchange for protection of their self-interests.

Question 3

Which statement best characterizes the ideas of John Locke?

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People are naturally reasonable.

Question 4

Who wrote The Leviathan, a 1651 publication about creating moral obligations to live in a civil society?

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Thomas Hobbes

Question 5

Read the passage from John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government . The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom. The quotation supports Locke’s belief in

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the social contract between people and government.

Question 6

Which statement best characterizes the ideas of Thomas Hobbes?

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People are naturally selfish and violent.

Question 7

Which statement best characterizes the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

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Governments create unequal societies.

Question 8

Enlightenment thinkers rejected the concept of

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absolutism.

Question 9

A difference between the ideas of Hobbes and Locke was that

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Hobbes believed life without government was difficult, while Locke believed people have the right to rebel.

Question 10

Which statement best characterizes the ideas of Voltaire?

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Government should be separate from religion.

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