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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
(a) The public rejected it.
(b) It stifled mans' original liberty and caused people to love their slavery.
(c) The public embraced it.
(d) Nothing.

2. What should society teach men to do instead of pursuing virtue, according to Rousseau?
(a) To love.
(b) Their role.
(c) To be humble.
(d) Their duty.

3. What is true philosophy, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Knowing consequence.
(b) Knowing power.
(c) Knowing how to act.
(d) Knowing how to speak.

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

5. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?
(a) The English and Greeks.
(b) The Romans and Greeks.
(c) The Romans and Germans.
(d) The Germans and Irish.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Rousseau, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?

3. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?

4. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

5. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?

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