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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's "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" discuss about the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences and morality?
(a) If morality purifies science.
(b) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.
(c) If corruption negates artistic quality.
(d) How morality and corruption affect one another.

2. What happened as words grew in number?
(a) Religion.
(b) Power.
(c) Cognition.
(d) Speech.

3. What did Rousseau believe created physics?
(a) Greed.
(b) Pride.
(c) Desire.
(d) Idleness.

4. The arts and sciences have helped human beings to repress what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Their narcissism.
(b) Their wickedness.
(c) Their kindness.
(d) Their infatuation.

5. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?
(a) Detriment.
(b) The outcome of equality.
(c) Results of inequality.
(d) Political equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

2. What does amore-propre preserve?

3. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?

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

5. What type of rights does Rousseau want the cities in his State to have?

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