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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. What is Chapter 1 about?
(a) Democracy versus republic.
(b) The best age to have children working.
(c) Relation between rulers and citizens.
(d) Moral effects of the arts and sciences.

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

3. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?
(a) Nice.
(b) Paris.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Lyon.

4. What does Rousseau say is the reason for the increase he saw in France?
(a) Art has become easily accessible.
(b) The bourgeois extended their hold on the economy.
(c) Sciences made people want more.
(d) Men left their ignorance behind.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?

3. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?

4. What are the two laws of nature and natural right according to Rousseau?

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

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