Quiz: Montesquieu

When was Montesquieu born?

• 1689, near Bordeaux, France.
• 1748, London, England.
• 1472, Yuyao, Zhejiang, China.
• 1685, near Kilkenny, Ireland.

When did Montesquieu die?

• 1755, Paris.
• 1778, Ermenonville, France.
• 1832, London. His preserved body sits at University College London.
• 1592, at his estate near Bordeaux.

What is Montesquieu known for?

• The Spirit of the Laws: liberty requires the separation of legislative, executive, and judicial power; laws fit climates and customs.
• Monads, the pre established harmony, the principle of sufficient reason, and the calculus priority dispute with Newton.
• The unity of knowledge and action: to know the good and not do it is not to know it. And innate knowing, the mind's original sense of right.
• The Essays, three books of self examination published from 1580, and the motto Que sais je, what do I know.

Which school of thought was Montesquieu part of?

• Enlightenment political theory.
• Enlightenment, its sharpest pen.
• Rationalism.
• Renaissance skepticism.

True or false: French nobleman and judge whose Spirit of the Laws of 1748 taught that liberty survives only when power checks power.

• True
• False