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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 does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?
(a) Complete idleness.
(b) Giving up power.
(c) Complete desire.
(d) Incomplete passion.

2. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?
(a) Their ancestors.
(b) God.
(c) Speech.
(d) The nature.

3. What is human understanding rooted in, according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Passions.
(d) Compassion.

4. What does Rousseau reflect on at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The origin of music.
(b) The origin of inequality.
(c) The origin of the stars.
(d) The origin of life.

5. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Morality and learning.
(b) Virtue and learning.
(c) Learning and ignorance.
(d) Virtue and morality.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was NOT a result in France from leaving behind ignorance?

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

3. What did Rousseau believe created physics?

4. What good definition is hard to find, according to Rousseau?

5. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?

(see the answer key)

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