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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?
(a) Men should be humiliated by this.
(b) Embrace it.
(c) Be proud of it.
(d) Be humbled by it.

2. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Talent and beauty are not defined.
(b) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(c) Beauty makes one work harder.
(d) Talent is defined, but not beauty.

3. What did Rousseau believe created physics?
(a) Idleness.
(b) Pride.
(c) Greed.
(d) Desire.

4. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how were humans more secure in earlier societies?
(a) They weren't more secure.
(b) No one was deemed better or worse than another.
(c) They had no pretentions.
(d) They could "see through" one another.

5. What does nature tell humans?
(a) Preserve his strength.
(b) Be kind.
(c) Preserve the land.
(d) Do good for himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can society no longer exist on after luxury is introduced, according to Rousseau?

2. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

3. According to Rousseau, what do passions allow for the human?

4. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?

5. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?

(see the answer key)

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