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

2. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?
(a) Men were ignorant to it.
(b) Men had a rude but natural morality.
(c) With passion.
(d) Men ignored it.

3. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?
(a) Money.
(b) Without tyrants or wars.
(c) Without greed and power.
(d) Government.

4. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?
(a) They corrupt human importance.
(b) They corrupt human thought.
(c) The improve well roundedness.
(d) They negate human reason.

5. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?
(a) Historians.
(b) Textbook writers.
(c) Priests.
(d) Kings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau believe is an artist's greatest compensation for his labor?

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

5. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?

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