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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 is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?
(a) It takes humans away from the natural.
(b) It enables the human to question everything.
(c) It moves humans from their original state.
(d) It renders the human blind.

2. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?
(a) Art.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Music.

3. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Beauty makes one work harder.
(b) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(c) Talent is defined, but not beauty.
(d) Talent and beauty are not defined.

4. 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 had no pretentions.
(b) No one was deemed better or worse than another.
(c) They weren't more secure.
(d) They could "see through" one another.

5. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Art.
(c) Desire.
(d) Moral corruption.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?

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

3. What makes use of human understanding, according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?

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

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