Quiz on Enlightenment Thinkers and Concepts

This 16th-century monarch reasserted their position as the head of English Church with the Act of Supremacy.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Elizabeth I

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

This intellectual was a member of the Noble of the Robes in France and wrote on the necessity of creating independent branches of government in order to help prevent an individual or group from wielding absolute state power.

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Elizabeth I

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

This intellectual helped formulate the first set of theories which asserted the necessity of a state to prevent anarchy following the series of conflicts known as the English Civil War from 1642-1651.

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Elizabeth I

This intellectual loathed the combination of church and state arguing state-enforced religion led to persecution.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Elizabeth I

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

This intellectual asserted the human mind was a ‘blank slate’ in late-17th century England.

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Elizabeth I

• Thomas Hobbes

These are a set of inherent liberties & protections granted to all people upon birth.

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• natural rights

• Baron de Montesquieu

This was the idea that states should be bound to a set of written rules & regulations, as deemed by the populace.

• John Locke

• constitutionalism

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

This was the idea that, in order to avoid absolutist tyranny, the powers of the state should be divided amongst executive, legislative, and judicial branches.

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Elizabeth I

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

This was the concept that the state was dependent upon the compliance of the populace, and, furthermore, that the populace is obligated to reform or replace state that fail to protect basic individual rights.

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• consent of the governed

This was the idea that human beings are, at least to a significant degree, selfish and aggressive, thus necessitating the existence of a sovereign authority (state) at the cost of specific, pre-determined liberties in order to stave off anarchy.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Elizabeth I

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu