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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. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?
(a) The sciences.
(b) The arts.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Religion.

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

3. What is Rousseau's biggest worry when discussing the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences in?
(a) To not be objective.
(b) To be selective in his research.
(c) That he will not explain it.
(d) It is difficult to treat the subject properly.

4. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Learning and ignorance.
(b) Morality and learning.
(c) Virtue and morality.
(d) Virtue and learning.

5. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?
(a) Strengthen them.
(b) Improve them.
(c) Worsen them.
(d) Affect them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What created ethics according to Rousseau?

2. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

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

4. How does Rousseau believe men should feel at the state of leaving ignorance?

5. What does Rousseau say arts require?

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