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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau compare in his illustration in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Modern time to prehistoric time.
(b) Governmental rule and religious rule.
(c) The modern man to the savage man.
(d) The modern woman to the savage man.

2. How does society subsist according to Rousseau?
(a) Lies.
(b) Governmental taxation.
(c) Gaining at others' expense.
(d) Illegal control.

3. What does nature tell humans?
(a) Be kind.
(b) Preserve the land.
(c) Do good for himself.
(d) Preserve his strength.

4. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?
(a) Family.
(b) Reproduction.
(c) Survival.
(d) Sensation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What summarizes the end of "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

2. When does Rousseau believe inequality came?

3. What is at conflict in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" that concerns Rousseau?

4. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?

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

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