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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?
(a) It's a good thing.
(b) It's evil.
(c) It's necessary.
(d) It allows growth.

2. What does Rousseau say arts require?
(a) Power.
(b) Passion.
(c) Luxury.
(d) Talent.

3. How does Rousseau see the state of man in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Unhealthy.
(b) Chaotic.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Happy and natural.

4. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) If no art was made.
(b) If art was banished.
(c) If art was deemed evil.
(d) If no one cared for art.

5. What does Rousseau argue at the beginning of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) That the arts are corrupt.
(b) Many civilizations believe that science arose from an enemy of humanity.
(c) That the government is corrupt.
(d) Many civilizations believe that art arose from an enemy of humanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau want to know about the "strong"?

2. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau think humans are called to in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

4. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?

5. What cannot be uncovered about nature's inequality, according to Rousseau?

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