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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) They are polar opposites.
(b) One must learn to understand virtue.
(c) They are contradictory.
(d) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.

2. 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) Be humbled by it.
(c) Be proud of it.
(d) Embrace it.

3. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?
(a) Men had a rude but natural morality.
(b) Men were ignorant to it.
(c) With passion.
(d) Men ignored it.

4. According to Rousseau, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?
(a) Power and religion.
(b) Reason and religion.
(c) Reason.
(d) Government and the law.

5. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?
(a) The establishment of talent.
(b) The establishment of beauty.
(c) The progress of talent.
(d) The progress of art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau's "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" discuss about the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences and morality?

2. Where did Rousseau analyze the effects of the arts and sciences on at the end of "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences. Part 1"?

3. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?

4. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?

5. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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