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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) Changes in the Monarchy.
(d) Democracy.

2. What is the First Discourse about according to the Introduction?
(a) Popular enlightenment corrupts morals.
(b) Monarchy is a good government.
(c) Frederick the Great's accomplishments.
(d) An attack on Locke.

3. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?
(a) Inequality between men and women.
(b) Nature of man.
(c) Why philosophers are great.
(d) The oppression of the masses.

4. What does the pursuit of art and science not teach citizens?
(a) To take care of themselves.
(b) To grow their own food.
(c) To be virtuous.
(d) To question authority.

5. What did the "philosophes" think would happen to a society where false beliefs wither?
(a) It would rule the world.
(b) It would collapse.
(c) It would get better.
(d) Women would come to power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?

2. What is, in science, more likely to result from speculation than truth?

3. What should academies organize society around?

4. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?

5. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?

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