Age of Revolutions Review

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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Many rulers came to power believing that their right to lead came from God. This is an example of: 

• Supreme Law
• Divine Right
• Their Opinion
• Poor Judgement

Which person believed that men were born evil and thus a strong government was needed to control them?

• Thomas Hobbes 
• John Locke
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Galileo Galilei

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." This pro-free speech quote is attributed to?

• Klemens von Metternich
• Baron de Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Louis XVI

“People are sovereign and have natural rights such as life, liberty, and property”

The author of the quote above is

• Locke
• Hobbes
• Montesquieu
• Voltaire

Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?

• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes
• Voltaire

Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?

• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Wollstonecraft
• Hobbes

Absolutist monarchs were ones who

• sought to control all aspects of public and private life.
• gathered all power under their personal control.
• governed as if the affairs of state should benefit the people.
• respect the laws passed by the representative institutions.

A distribution of powers to more than one branch of government

• natural rights
• Separation of Powers
• Social Contract

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:

• A dictatorship
• A democracy
• An absolute monarchy
• All of these