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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 did men dwell on according to Rousseau in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?
(a) Wants.
(b) Desire.
(c) Needs.
(d) Love.

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

3. Where do people begin to crowd as luxury grows, according to Rousseau?
(a) The West.
(b) Cities.
(c) The country.
(d) China.

4. What should society teach men to do instead of pursuing virtue, according to Rousseau?
(a) Their role.
(b) To love.
(c) Their duty.
(d) To be humble.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe man's current state has more of in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

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

3. What does Rousseau compare in his illustration in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

4. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?

5. What created ethics according to Rousseau?

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