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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. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?
(a) To have more land.
(b) To keep their personal secrets.
(c) To hide their wickedness.
(d) Secrecy is best.

2. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?
(a) Trust one another.
(b) Distrust the government.
(c) Distrust the state.
(d) Distrust one another.

3. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?
(a) They corrupt human importance.
(b) They negate human reason.
(c) They corrupt human thought.
(d) The improve well roundedness.

4. How do modern centuries see natural law?
(a) Rules.
(b) Accepted societal behavior.
(c) Rules given to men, given to themselves.
(d) Understood rules.

5. 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) How morality and corruption affect one another.
(c) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.
(d) If morality purifies science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What good definition is hard to find, according to Rousseau?

2. What is true philosophy, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

3. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?

4. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?

5. What does Rousseau hope the citizens are able to keep?

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