Enlightenment Assessment Review Question Preview (ID: 42733)


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Majority Rule
a) Rousseau
b) Locke
c) Hobbes
d) Montesquieu

No government, no rules, everything belongs to everyone
a) Social Contract
b) Checks and Balances
c) Separation of Powers
d) State of Nature

What time period (years) was the Enlightenment taking place?
a) 1789 - 1865
b) 1715 - 1789
c) 1900 - 2018
d) 34 - 1789

Citizens vote for a person to speak for them in government affairs
a) Direct Democracy
b) Representative Democracy
c) Theocracy
d) Dictatorship

Which explanation is best for the social contract?
a) An agreement in which people give power to a government in exchange for protections
b) An agreement in which people give power to a government in exchange for freedom
c) An agreement in which people give power to a government in exchange for currency
d) An agreement in which people give power to a government in exchange for rights

Define Natural Rights.
a) Rights all human beings have, as long as they are citizens of a government
b) Rights all people have from birth, regardless of social position
c) Rights half of the people have in the Western world
d) No rules

What are Locke's 3 main ideas in Natural Rights?
a) Life, Liberty, Nutrition
b) Life, Liberty, Probation
c) Life, Happiness, Safety
d) Life, Liberty, Property

What does separation of power mean?
a) Citizens vote for a small number of people to represent them
b) Citizens vote directly for their officials
c) An agreement in which people give power to the government in exchange for protections
d) A government divided into branches that each has different responsibilities

Consent of the Governed
a) People can rebel against the government, if the government breaks the social contract
b) People can rebel against each other in a state of nature
c) People must accept the government they voted for
d) People must accept the way things are

What are checks and balances?
a) A system of government where each branch has a way to limit the power of another
b) A system of government where each branch has total control over the other
c) A blank slate of mind that all people have
d) Right to their own liberty

One of Rousseau's enlightenment ideas
a) Tabula Rasa
b) Checks and Balances
c) Direct Democracy
d) Consent of the Governed

One of Montesquieu's enlightenment ideas
a) Republicanism
b) Separation of Powers
c) Direct Democracy
d) Tabula Rasa

One of Hobbes enlightenment ideas
a) Direct Democracy
b) Representative Democracy
c) Social Contract
d) Natural Freedom

One of Locke's enlightenment ideas
a) Natural Rights
b) Majority Rule
c) Consent of the Governed
d) Separation of Powers

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