The Enlightenment

Question 1

Baron de Montesquieu was an Enlightenment philosopher from

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France.

Question 2

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

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Governments create unequal societies.

Question 3

Which list states events of the Enlightenment in the correct order?

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i. The English Civil War comes to an end.ii. Locke builds on the ideas of Hobbes.iii. Montesquieu publishes Spirit of Laws.iv. Rousseau publishes The Social Contract.

Question 4

Which three topics became a major focus of the Enlightenment?

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rights and responsibilities, politics, reason

Question 5

Which movement happened last in Europe?

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the Enlightenment

Question 6

A political effect of the Enlightenment was that

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some monarchs embraced new ideas from the movement.

Question 7

The movement known as the Enlightenment occurred during

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the 1600s and 1700s.

Question 8

Which statement best characterizes the ideas of John Locke?

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People are naturally reasonable.

Question 9

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 10

Which statement best characterizes the ideas of Thomas Hobbes?

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People are naturally selfish and violent.

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