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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 art was banished.
(b) If no art was made.
(c) If art was deemed evil.
(d) If no one cared for art.

2. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how were humans more secure in earlier societies?
(a) They could "see through" one another.
(b) No one was deemed better or worse than another.
(c) They had no pretentions.
(d) They weren't more secure.

3. What is the abuse of morality generated by, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) The growth of inequality between men.
(b) The use of science.
(c) The growth of desire.
(d) The growth of social classes.

4. What does Rousseau want to know about the "strong"?
(a) Why they serve the weak.
(b) Why they do not serve the weak.
(c) Who serves the strong.
(d) How they came to serve the weak.

5. What does Rousseau believe is an artist's greatest compensation for his labor?
(a) Display.
(b) Money.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Praise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?

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

3. What did Rousseau believe created physics?

4. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?

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

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