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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Rousseau die?
(a) 1804.
(b) 1777.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1778.

2. What follows the spread of knowledge according to the First Discourse?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Riches.

3. What does Rousseau say at the end of Chapter 1 might contradict virtue?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Religion.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Education.

4. What should academies organize society around?
(a) Riches.
(b) Family heritage.
(c) Clans.
(d) What knowledge different class should have.

5. What does Rousseau say men can hide from open discernment?
(a) Science.
(b) Their love of God.
(c) Their incompetence.
(d) Their motives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacked art and science according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau say preceded what men are coming to?

3. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to recognize?

4. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?

5. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?

(see the answer key)

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