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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Rousseau, why does science lead to war?
(a) It produces better weapons.
(b) It gives knowledge.
(c) It allows plan of attacks.
(d) It enables the desire of revenge.

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

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

5. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?
(a) Europe's barbarism.
(b) Europe's fall of empire.
(c) Rome's fall of empire.
(d) America's industrialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?

2. What do people seek that do not exist, according to Rousseau at the end of Chapter 2, "A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

3. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?

4. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?

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

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