Official Definitions

An intellectual movement focused on reason and individual problem-solving is called _________.

• Enlightenment

• Renaissance

• Industrial Revolution

• Romanticism

Giving up rights to a ruler for law and order is called a _________?

• social contract

• divine right

• separation of powers

• natural law

Which philosopher believed people could learn from experience, criticized absolute monarchy, and supported self-government?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

The French word for philosophers is:

• philosophes

• bourgeoisie

• sans-culottes

• émigrés

Which French philosopher used satire to support tolerance and freedom of speech?

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Descartes

• Montesquieu

Who studied political liberty?

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Diderot

Which philosopher supported individual freedom?

• Rousseau

• Plato

• Hobbes

• Descartes

Which philosopher said women need education to be virtuous and join fields like medicine and politics?

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Simone de Beauvoir

• John Stuart Mill

• Aristotle

Who argued for the separation of powers in government?

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

Which Enlightenment thinker believed people are naturally selfish and need a strong government?

• Simone de Beauvoir

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau