The Enlightenment

Question 1

Which statement best characterizes the ideas of John Locke?

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People are naturally reasonable.

Question 2

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

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Governments create unequal societies.

Question 3

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 4

Which statement best characterizes the ideas of Thomas Hobbes?

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People are naturally selfish and violent.

Question 5

In France, philosophes discussed Enlightenment ideas in

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salons.

Question 6

Which three topics became a major focus of the Enlightenment?

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rights and responsibilities, politics, reason

Question 7

In the 1700s, an effect of the Enlightenment was

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a rise in support for representative government.

Question 8

A political effect of the Enlightenment was that

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some monarchs embraced new ideas from the movement.

Question 9

One of Baron de Montesquieu’s key ideas was

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creating checks and balances.

Question 10

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.

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