The Enlightenment

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

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? Rights for minorities American independence Laissez faire Rights for women

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

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 Diderot Smith Locke

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

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." Voltaire Rousseau Kant Diderot

11. Which of these phrases opens Rousseau's book, "The Social Contract"? "Custom, then, is the great guide of human life." "Man is born free, and everywhere else he is in chains." "Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination." "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 French Revolution the Scientific Revolution the Age of Discovery the Age of Reason

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

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)