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Grade 10 Enlightenment
What Enlightenment thinker is known for the concept of "separation of powers"?
  1. Montesquieu
  2. Voltaire
  3. Thomas Hobbes
  4. Adam Smith
Grade 10 Enlightenment
Who wrote the "Social Contract"?
  1. Locke
  2. Hobbs
  3. Rousseau
  4. Voltaire
Grade 10 Enlightenment
The War of the Spanish Succession occurred in what century?
  1. 12th
  2. 14th
  3. 16th
  4. 18th
Grade 10 Enlightenment
Who wrote "The Wealth of Nations"?
  1. Voltaire
  2. Rousseau
  3. Adam Smith
  4. David Hume
Grade 10 Enlightenment
What is the name of Voltaire's most famous work?
  1. Émile
  2. Candide
  3. Pangloss
  4. Encyclopédie
Grade 10 Enlightenment
Who was the author of the scientific treatise Principia Mathematica?
  1. Andreas Vesalius
  2. Isaac Newton
  3. John Harvey
  4. Francis Bacon
  5. Decartes
Grade 10 Enlightenment
Who worked as the editor of the "Encyclopédie" for twenty five years?
  1. D'Alembert
  2. Condorcet
  3. Le Breton
  4. Diderot
Grade 10 Enlightenment
Voltaire believed in religious toleration.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 10 Enlightenment
Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in
  1. changing the relationship between people and their government
  2. supporting the divine right theory
  3. debating the role of the church in society
  4. promoting increased power of the monarch
Grade 10 Enlightenment
What is the name of Kant's influential work on epistemology?
  1. Candide
  2. Social Contract
  3. The Spirit of Laws
  4. A Critique of Pure Reason
Grade 10 Enlightenment
The writers an philosophers of the Enlightenment believed the government decisions should be based on
  1. fundamental religious beliefs
  2. the concept of divine right of kings
  3. laws of nature and reason
  4. traditional values
Grade 10 Enlightenment
Which period in history had the greatest influence on the Enlightenment ideas of natural law and reason?
  1. Pax Romana
  2. Middle Ages
  3. Age of exploration
  4. Scientific Revolution
Grade 10 Enlightenment
According to John Locke, the chief role of government was to
  1. protect natural rights
  2. fight territorial wars
  3. ensure the wealth of citizens
  4. redistribute land
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