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

2. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(b) Greed.
(c) Pride and corruption of intelligence.
(d) Luxury and the corruption of taste.

3. What does Rousseau consider to see if the contradiction he found was true?
(a) The government.
(b) The church.
(c) The wealth of the state.
(d) The arts and sciences.

4. Who is Rousseau saddened by in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) Himself.
(b) His citizen's loss of freedom.
(c) His citizen's loss of power.
(d) His citizen's loss of equality.

5. What type of government worries Rousseau?
(a) Democratic.
(b) Republican.
(c) Dictatorship.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did men dwell on according to Rousseau in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

2. According to Rousseau, what do men have that is difficult to control?

3. How many types of inequality does Rousseau see among humans in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

4. According to Rousseau, what do passions allow for the human?

5. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?

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