Intellectual Movements in Early Modern Europe Quiz

Test your knowledge of key figures, works, and ideas from the Enlightenment, Renaissance, and Scientific Revolution in Europe's intellectual history.

#1

Which intellectual movement emphasized reason, science, and skepticism of traditional beliefs in the 17th and 18th centuries?

Romanticism
Enlightenment
Baroque
Renaissance
#2

What intellectual movement, emerging in the 16th century, emphasized the revival of classical learning, literature, and art?

Enlightenment
Baroque
Renaissance
Romanticism
#3

Who is considered the 'Father of Modern Economics' and wrote 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations'?

John Locke
Adam Smith
Karl Marx
David Ricardo
#4

Who was the French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher known for Cartesian coordinates and contributions to analytical geometry?

Blaise Pascal
Pierre-Simon Laplace
René Descartes
Évariste Galois
#5

Which Enlightenment philosopher is known for his advocacy of tolerance, separation of powers, and contributions to the Encyclopédie?

Denis Diderot
Baruch Spinoza
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#6

Who is often considered the father of modern philosophy and a key figure in the Enlightenment?

Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
John Locke
René Descartes
#7

Which work by Thomas Hobbes discusses the social contract and the need for a strong central authority to avoid a 'state of nature'?

Discourse on Method
Leviathan
The Prince
Two Treatises of Government
#8

Who was the author of 'The Prince,' a political treatise that examines the acquisition and maintenance of political power?

Machiavelli
Bacon
Erasmus
Cervantes
#9

Which movement, characterized by ornate and extravagant artistic style, flourished in the 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe?

Enlightenment
Baroque
Renaissance
Neoclassicism
#10

Which scientific revolution figure formulated the laws of planetary motion and made significant contributions to the field of astronomy?

Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
Nicolas Copernicus
#11

Who wrote 'The Spirit of the Laws,' which explored the separation of powers and influenced the development of modern political theory?

Montesquieu
Voltaire
Rousseau
Diderot
#12

Which Enlightenment philosopher is known for his treatise 'A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge' and his views on empiricism?

David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Jefferson
#13

Who authored 'The Social Contract,' a work discussing the concept of a social contract and the idea of the 'general will'?

Hobbes
Locke
Rousseau
Voltaire
#14

Which philosopher, known for his 'Cogito, ergo sum' (I think, therefore I am), played a pivotal role in the development of modern Western philosophy?

Leibniz
Descartes
Spinoza
Kant
#15

Who wrote 'The Leviathan' and argued for a social contract based on people's inherent self-interest and the need for a strong central authority?

John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu

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