Deck 5: Famous Authors and Thinkers of the Enlightenment ERA

Question 1

'Wealth of Nations'was the work of ………..

A)John Locke
B)Rene Descartes
C)Alfred Marshall
D)Adam Smith

Answer 1

Adam Smith

Question 2

………….., one of the best scientists of his time, wrote an essay entitled, "On Liberty and Necessity: Man in the Newtonian Universe."

A)Benjamin Franklin
B)Robert Owen
C)John Calvin
D)Thomas Paine

Answer 2

Benjamin Franklin

Question 3

……………..was "the founder of liberalism".

A)John Locke
B)Montesquieu
C)Thomas Paine
D)Robert Fulton

Answer 3

John Locke

Question 4

Two years after writing the Two Tracts on Government, …………….changed significantly in his views about magisterial authority and toleration in An Essay Concerning Toleration (1667).

A)John Locke
B)Thomas Paine
C)Michael Faraday
D)Jethro Tull

Question 5

The Advancement of Learning was written by ………………..

A)Francis Bacon
B)Thomas Paine
C)Robert Fulton
D)Rousseau

Question 6

Who wrote'Novum Organum Scientiarum'?

A)Newton
B)Thomas Paine
C)Francis Bacon
D)Montesquieu

Question 7

Thomas Hobbes was an……………. Philosopher

A)French
B)Russian
C)English
D)Indian

Question 8

Whose masterwork was Leviathan?

A)Aristotle
B)Plato
C)Thomas Hobbes
D)Locke

Question 9

'Meditations on First Philosophy' was written by ……………….

A)Montesquieu
B)Thomas Paine
C)Descartes
D)Charles Telford

Question 10

Whose masterpiece was 'The Spirit of the Laws'?

A)Thomas Paine
B)Thomas Aquinas
C)Aristotle
D)Montesquieu

Question 11

Persian Letters was written by ………………

A)Montesquieu
B)Thomas Paine
C)Rousseau
D)Viscount Townsend

Question 12

Who wrote the philosophical work, A Discourse on the Sciences and Arts?

A)Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B)Thomas Paine
C)Charles Telford
D)Voltaire

Question 13

The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality was written by ………………..

A)Rousseau
B)Thomas Paine
C)Montesquieu
D)Robert Fulton

Question 14

Whose major work on political philosophy was the The Social Contract?

A)Michael Faraday
B)Montesquieu
C)Charles Telford
D)Rousseau

Question 15

'The Confessions' was the Autobiography of ………………..

A)Jethro Tull
B)Thomas Paine
C)Montesquieu
D)Rousseau

Question 16

Denis Diderot was the brightest light of the ……………Enlightenment-a man of intelligence, passion and genius.

A)Dutch
B)Spanish
C)Russian
D)French

Question 17

Voltaire was a prolific writer, philosopher, poet and pamphletist, and the preeminent figure of the 18th century ………..Enlightenment.

A)French
B)American
C)Russian
D)German

Question 18

Who Wrote Philosophical Dictionary?

A)Robert Fulton
B)Thomas Paine
C)Montesquieu
D)Voltaire

Question 19

Who were The Physiocrats?

A)Historians
B)Sociologists
C)Scientists
D)Economists

Question 20

Colbert was served as a minister in the Court of…………..

A)Louis XIV
B)James I
C)Edward VI
D)Charles I

Question 21

Thomas Paine was a radical writer who emigrated from …………to America in 1774.

A)England
B)Russia
C)Spain
D)Austria

Question 22

Early in 1776, …………published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule.

A)Thomas Paine
B)Montesquieu
C)Michael Faraday
D)Ranke

Question 23

In Common Sense, …………made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent.

A)Thomas Paine
B)Karl Marx
C)Charles Darwin
D)Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 24

Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason?

A)Thomas Paine
B)Montesquieu
C)Charles Telford
D)Robert Fulton

Question 25

The …………..Revolution began with the fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.

A)French
B)Dutch
C)American
D)English