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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 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?
(a) If morality purifies science.
(b) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.
(c) How morality and corruption affect one another.
(d) If corruption negates artistic quality.

2. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Weatlth.

3. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) If no one cared for art.
(b) If no art was made.
(c) If art was deemed evil.
(d) If art was banished.

4. What does Rousseau believe happens with the more a human knows?
(a) More time to discuss topics.
(b) More time for mischief.
(c) More time to want greed.
(d) Less time for mischief.

5. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?
(a) Art and artists.
(b) History.
(c) The printing press.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe is an artist's greatest compensation for his labor?

2. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?

3. Who does Rousseau think promulgates wicked doctrines?

4. 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"?

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

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