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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Morality.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Values.

2. What does Rousseau say men came to love?
(a) Religion.
(b) The restriction imposed by arts and sciences.
(c) Sciences.
(d) Arts.

3. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) Riches, vice and oppression.
(b) Arts.
(c) The riches of the bourgeois.
(d) The power of the noblemen.

4. What is Rousseau concerned about in the treatment of the topic of Chapter 1?
(a) The arguments for and against are the same.
(b) Being unfair means favoring the arts.
(c) The difficulty of being fair.
(d) The difficulty of being accurate.

5. What does Rousseau say is hidden in society?
(a) A chariot of intelligence.
(b) A car of knowledge.
(c) A boatload of art.
(d) A train of vices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do differing forms of government result from according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau say binds the poor and gives the rich new power?

3. What do men become when they acquire more than others according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?

5. What does Rousseau think arises out of the property phenomenon?

(see the answer key)

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