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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?
(a) Detriment.
(b) Political equality.
(c) Results of inequality.
(d) The outcome of equality.

2. What things does Rousseau compare at the beginning of "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy"?
(a) The disanalogy of family to national economy.
(b) Governmental control.
(c) Rich and poor.
(d) Men and women and the church.

3. What does Rousseau feel happens to the state as a result of luxury development?
(a) It grows greedy.
(b) It grows poor.
(c) The quality of life increases.
(d) It grows rich, but sometimes depopulates themselves.

4. What was the result of new tools being invented, according to Rousseau?
(a) Violence and death.
(b) Men's interests began to coincide.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Men's interests began to conflict.

5. What was man's first feeling, according to Rousseau?
(a) Self preservation.
(b) His breath.
(c) Crying.
(d) His existense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do men have that can be combined, according to Rousseau?

2. According to Rousseau, what is the outcome of man's labor?

3. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?

4. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?

5. How many types of inequality does Rousseau see among humans in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

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