The Enlightenment

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1. When did the the Enlightenment take place? Fifteenth century. Mid-seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries Late eighteenth century During the dark ages

2. Match the Enlightenment thinkers with their works. Which of these 'strings' is correct? Hobbes: "Leviathan"; Montesquieu: "Spirit of Laws"; Smith: "Wealth of Nations" Voltaire: "Oedipe"; Smith: "Essay on Philosophical Subjects"; Diderot: "Of the Conduct of the Understanding" Locke: "Two Treatises"; Hobbes: "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"; Wollstonecraft: "An Essay Concerning Toleration" Montesquieu: "Some Thoughts Concerning Education"; Locke: "A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles of Saint Paul"; Franklin: "First Tract on Government"

3. What cause did Mary Wollstonecraft fight for most ardently? American independence Rights for minorities Rights for women Laissez faire

4. Which philosopher said that life without a strong government would be "nasty, brutish, and short"? Hobbes Locke Montesquieu Smith

5. Adam Smith argued against laissez faire in his major wokr "The Wealth of Nations". True False

6. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". Which Enlightenment philosopher had the greatest impact on this phrase from the Declaration of Independence, by Thomas Jefferson? Voltaire Locke Smith Diderot

7. Which idea, taken from Montesquieu, became an integral part of the American system of government? direct election of executives checks and balances tricameral legislature individual subordination to the community

8. Who was the most popular American philosopher? Hints: he traveled around Europe and was very popular there. He was sixty-eight years old at the time of the First Continental Congress. Answer: (Two Words)

9. Which Enlightenment philosopher was unique in that he said that the individual should subordinate to the good of the community as a whole? Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thomas Abbt Denis Diderot David Hume

10. Who made this famous remark? "Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made." Rousseau Voltaire Diderot Kant

11. Which of these phrases opens Rousseau's book, "The Social Contract"? "Man is born free, and everywhere else he is in chains." "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination." "Custom, then, is the great guide of human life." "Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it."

12. Which group focused on economic reform during the Enlightenment? Mercantilists Physiocrats Philosophes Encyclopedists

13. Which of the following did NOT influence the Enlightenment? the Age of Reason the Age of Discovery the French Revolution the Scientific Revolution

14. Who was the main editor of the Encyclopédie? David Hume Antoine Lavoisier Denis Diderot Joseph Priestly

15. Finally, who was the writer of this phrase, which explains what the Enlightenment was all about? "Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them." Answer: (One Word)