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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 say would have been prevented if someone called on the lies of the man who invented property rights?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Banks.
(c) Trials.
(d) Many calamities.

2. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?
(a) Blindly following the philosophers.
(b) Moral behavior.
(c) Bad education
(d) Studying art.

3. What does laziness do to men according to Rousseau?
(a) Makes them into thieves.
(b) Turn them into artists.
(c) Makes them philosophers.
(d) Regress them to the state of nature.

4. What power does Rousseau want the citizens of the cities to be able to do?
(a) To live outside the city.
(b) To make their own laws.
(c) To live in peace.
(d) To create their own art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say that the men will soon require?

2. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?

3. What does Rousseau argue generates geometry?

4. What does Rousseau argue does not enter into consideration when a nation is formed by men?

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

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