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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau consider to see if the contradiction he found was true?
(a) The church.
(b) The arts and sciences.
(c) The wealth of the state.
(d) The government.

2. Slavery makes people tend to be what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Affiliated.
(b) Civilized.
(c) Equal.
(d) Angry.

3. What does Rousseau reflect on at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The origin of inequality.
(b) The origin of life.
(c) The origin of music.
(d) The origin of the stars.

4. What is the abuse of morality generated by, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) The use of science.
(b) The growth of inequality between men.
(c) The growth of social classes.
(d) The growth of desire.

5. What must Rousseau first figure out before writing "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?
(a) The nature of civilization.
(b) The nature of humans.
(c) History of greed.
(d) History of humans.

6. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?
(a) Historians.
(b) Kings.
(c) Textbook writers.
(d) Priests.

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

8. What type of rights does Rousseau want the cities in his State to have?
(a) To make laws.
(b) To vote.
(c) To make war.
(d) To make peace.

9. How is wasting time viewed by society today, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Good.
(b) Needed.
(c) Evil.
(d) Lazy.

10. What created ethics according to Rousseau?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Pride.
(c) Greed.
(d) Desire.

11. 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) Talent and beauty are not defined.
(d) Beauty makes one work harder.

12. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?
(a) America's industrialism.
(b) Rome's fall of empire.
(c) Europe's fall of empire.
(d) Europe's barbarism.

13. Who does Rousseau thank at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) His children.
(b) His parents.
(c) His sovereign lords.
(d) His wife.

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

15. What does luxury generate according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Social classes.
(b) Time wasted.
(c) Power.
(d) Greed.

Short Answer 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?

2. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?

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

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

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

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