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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 would history be empty without, according Rousseau?
(a) Without greed and power.
(b) Government.
(c) Without tyrants or wars.
(d) Money.

2. What does Rousseau believe man's current state has more of in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Luxury.
(b) Egotism.
(c) Denial over all.
(d) More pain than pleasure.

3. What does Rousseau feel happens to the state as a result of luxury development?
(a) It grows poor.
(b) It grows rich, but sometimes depopulates themselves.
(c) The quality of life increases.
(d) It grows greedy.

4. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?
(a) War.
(b) The printing press.
(c) Art and artists.
(d) History.

5. According to Rousseau, what do passions allow for the human?
(a) Fears and dreams.
(b) Degeneration.
(c) Improvement of reason.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do few artists defend according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

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

3. According to Rousseau, why does science lead to war?

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

5. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?

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