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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 do people seek that do not exist, according to Rousseau at the end of Chapter 2, "A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Remedies.
(b) Money.
(c) Power.
(d) Love.

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

3. 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 contradictory.
(b) One must learn to understand virtue.
(c) They are polar opposites.
(d) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.

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

5. What does Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?
(a) Be humble.
(b) Show compassion.
(c) Live in exile.
(d) Reap glory and remain obscure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?

2. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?

3. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

4. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?

5. 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?

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