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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 inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Love.
(d) Weatlth.

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

3. What does Rousseau say arts require?
(a) Power.
(b) Luxury.
(c) Passion.
(d) Talent.

4. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Virtue and learning.
(b) Learning and ignorance.
(c) Morality and learning.
(d) Virtue and morality.

5. According to Rousseau, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?
(a) Reason and religion.
(b) Reason.
(c) Power and religion.
(d) Government and the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does luxury generate according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

2. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?

3. Which other civilizations were NOT mentioned by Rousseau as being impacted by the progress of art?

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

5. What is true philosophy, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

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