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Enlightenment Review

Quiz by Tim McElroy

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  • Q1
    The two main ideas of the Enlightenment in solving social and political problems are:
    Religion and Passion
    Thinking and Voting
    Logic and Reason
    Political Science and Reason
    60s
  • Q2
    Who is credited with devising the constitutional principle of separation of power and balance of power in government?
    Aristotle
    Montesquieu
    Hobbes
    Jefferson
    60s
  • Q3
    The political theory that people form government for their protection and that government rules only with the approval of those people is called the (a)
    Divine Right of Kings Theory
    Social Contract Theory
    Implied Consent Theory
    Evolutionary Theory
    60s
  • Q4
    Who wrote that all men are created with equal rights and responsibilites under the law of nature?
    Thomas Aquinas
    John Locke
    Plato
    George Washington
    60s
  • Q5
    Who was the one who incorporated the ideas of John Locke and Montesquieu into the Declaration of Independence?
    Ronald Reagan
    Abraham Lincoln
    Patrick Henry
    Thomas Jefferson
    60s
  • Q6
    This philosophical movement, The Enlightenment, applied reason not only to the natural world but also to?
    Nuclear proliferaton
    Absolutism
    Voltaire
    Religious tolerance
    60s
  • Q7
    Government, as a purpose, is to protect natural rights. Whose theory is this?
    Adi Amin
    Adam Smith
    John Locke
    Joseph Stalin
    60s
  • Q8
    If a government did not protect the natural rights of man what were the people to do according to John Locke's theory?
    to overthrow the government and establish a new one
    Set up a dictatorship
    Cry, Moan & Weep
    Be satisfied with it and live with it
    60s
  • Q9
    This Enlightenment thinker's idea on government was to divide it into three (3) branches to prevent one from becoming more powerful than the other two:
    Madison
    Locke
    Montesquieu
    Hobbes
    60s
  • Q10
    The Scientific Revolution focused on:
    Animal Behavior
    Rational thought and natural laws
    Religion and Space flight
    Man's behavior
    60s

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