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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. How does Rousseau think the gods will react to people forming a more perfect union?
(a) They will teach them.
(b) They will bless them.
(c) They will curse them.
(d) They will smile on them.

2. According to Rousseau, what is the outcome of man's labor?
(a) More resources.
(b) Continual suffrage.
(c) Nothing.
(d) More greed.

3. How does society subsist according to Rousseau?
(a) Governmental taxation.
(b) Illegal control.
(c) Gaining at others' expense.
(d) Lies.

4. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Pride and corruption of intelligence.
(b) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(c) Luxury and the corruption of taste.
(d) Greed.

5. How is wasting time viewed by society today, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Good.
(b) Evil.
(c) Needed.
(d) Lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what is the savage man of nature focused on?

2. What makes use of human understanding, according to Rousseau?

3. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?

5. What has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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