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The Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment took place in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was a time when reason took principal over the Church. How well do you know the advocates of this era?

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Question #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

Question #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.

Question #3

Who established his ideas about race in "On the Different Races of Men"?

Immanuel Kant
Adam Smith
John Locke
David Hume

Question #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

Question #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.

Question #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?

Madame Geoffrin
Olympe de Gouges
Mary Wollstonecraft
Germaine de Staël
Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

Question #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.

Question #8

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

Bernard de Fontenelle
Baron de Montesquieu
Denis Diderot
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jacques Necker

Question #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.

True
False

Question #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

Question #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.

True
False

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The Age of Enlightenment

Question #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"?

Question #2

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

Question #3

Who established his ideas about race in "On the Different Races of Men"?

Question #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?

Question #5

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

Question #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?

Question #7

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

Question #8

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

Question #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.

Question #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...

Question #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.

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The Age of Enlightenment

Question #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"?

Question #2

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

Question #3

Who established his ideas about race in "On the Different Races of Men"?

Question #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?

Question #5

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

Question #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?

Question #7

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

Question #8

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

Question #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.

Question #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...

Question #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.

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