Braingle: 'The Age of Enlightenment' Trivia Quiz

#1 Jean le Rond d'Alembert was one of the authors of the "Encyclopedia: The Rational Dictionary of the Sciences, the Arts, and the Crafts". Who helped him write and publish the many volumes of the "Encyclopedia"?

Voltaire
Denis Diderot
Thomas Hobbes
Baron de Montesquieu

#2 Voltaire was a believer in many things. What is one thing he did NOT believe in?

There is a god.
Newton was a genius for using his mind for the benefit of humanity.
Frederick II the Great was a free thinker and an enlightened monarch.
Civilization destroyed an individual.
The best government was one with a good monarch.

Immanuel Kant
Adam Smith
John Locke
David Hume

#4 Adam Smith is considered the father of the science of political economy. He gave an exposition for the market forces of Great Britain. Which of the following books did he write?

Candide
Leviathan
Wealth of Nations
A Treatise of Human Nature

#5 David Hume believed the human mind was nothing more than a bundle of impressions. He also believed...

A woman's role is to care for children and to please her husband with good housekeeping, a modest manner, and a fresh, natural appearance.
Our ideas are based on our experiences, and reason can't tell us anything about questions that can't be confirmed by the sense of experience.
People had to obey laws and should be punished for "impertinent" criticism.
Despotism must ultimately fail.

#6 This lady was partially responsible for the publication of the "Encyclopedia"; she was known as the "godmother" of the book. She also held many salons, of which Baron de Montesquieu and Bernard de Fontenelle were regular attendees. Who is this lady?

#7 France was the first for enlightened development. Which of the following reasons is NOT a cause for the Enlightenment to begin in France?

French was the international language of the educated class in the eighteenth century.
French absolutism and religious orthoxody remained at the right level of strength after the death of Louis XIV.
French philosophes asked fundamental questions about the meaning of life, God, human nature, good and evil, and cause and effect.
The French government focused on territorial expansion.

#8 The theory of separation of powers was published in "The Spirit of Laws" by ______________.

#9 Jean-Jacques Rousseau was extremely paranoid. He was convinced that all his philosophe friends and the women of the salons he attended were scheming against him.

#10 John Locke believed the human mind at birth was a "tabula rasa", a blank tablet. He believed the environment in which people develop had a direct impact on an individual's understanding and beliefs. This idea of Locke's was published in...

Second Treatise of Civil Government
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
A Treatise of Human Nature
The Persian Letters

#11 The American Declaration of Independence, the United States Bill of Rights, and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen were based off Enlightenment concepts.

The Age of Enlightenment