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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 bless them.
(b) They will teach them.
(c) They will curse them.
(d) They will smile on them.

2. What does amore-propre preserve?
(a) The nature.
(b) The greed.
(c) The desire.
(d) The species.

3. Which of the following was NOT mentioned being a result of luxury?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Letters.
(c) Commerce.
(d) Mechanical arts.

4. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?
(a) Government.
(b) Weather.
(c) Society.
(d) Nature.

5. What does philosophy do?
(a) Broadens the human.
(b) Isolates the human.
(c) Introverts the human.
(d) Enlightens the human.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what do passions allow for the human?

2. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?

3. What summarizes the end of "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

4. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?

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

(see the answer key)

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