The First and Second Discourses: By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain? (from Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface)

Their banks.

Their right to ignore the law.

Their democracy.

Their art.

2.

What type of democracy would Rousseau like? (from Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface)

One that allows him to live peacefully.

A bloated one.

One where he is in charge.

One without representatives.

3.

What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man? (from Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface)

It obscures it.

It destroys it.

It make it better.

It nurtures it.

4.

What does Rousseau say made the fortune of perhaps ten thousand men? (from Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix)

The fatal fire of London.

The creation of the stock market.

The industrial revolution.

Slavery.

5.

What does Rousseau say artists rarely are? (from Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II)

Good.

Patriots or good men.

Successful.

Smart.

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