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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The arts and sciences have helped human beings to repress what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Their infatuation.
(b) Their wickedness.
(c) Their narcissism.
(d) Their kindness.

2. What type of state is Rousseau interested in having?
(a) One that is uninterested by conquest.
(b) One that is powerful.
(c) One that is poor.
(d) One that is interested by conquest.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do modern centuries see natural law?

2. How did older centuries think of natural law, according to Rousseau?

3. Who does Rousseau think promulgates wicked doctrines?

4. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?

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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