Who wrote Utopia?

Who wrote Utopia?

• A. Sir Thomas More
• B. Thomas Hobbes
• C. Francis Bacon
• D. Erasmus

Answer: (A)

This question tests your knowledge of who authored a famous Renaissance work that imagines an ideal society to critique real-world governance and customs. The writer is Sir Thomas More, an English statesman and humanist who lived in the early 1500s. He crafted Utopia in Latin and published it in 1516, using a dialog to explore how property, law, education, and social organization might look in a community designed to maximize justice and welfare. The title’s sense of a “no-place” invites readers to compare More’s imagined commonwealth with actual Europe and to question prevailing institutions. While the other figures—Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, and Erasmus—were influential in related fields, none of them authored this work.

This question tests your knowledge of who authored a famous Renaissance work that imagines an ideal society to critique real-world governance and customs. The writer is Sir Thomas More, an English statesman and humanist who lived in the early 1500s. He crafted Utopia in Latin and published it in 1516, using a dialog to explore how property, law, education, and social organization might look in a community designed to maximize justice and welfare. The title’s sense of a “no-place” invites readers to compare More’s imagined commonwealth with actual Europe and to question prevailing institutions. While the other figures—Thomas Hobbes, Francis Bacon, and Erasmus—were influential in related fields, none of them authored this work.