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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) Weatlth.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Love.

2. What is true philosophy, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Knowing consequence.
(b) Knowing how to speak.
(c) Knowing power.
(d) Knowing how to act.

3. What does Rousseau argue at the beginning of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) That the government is corrupt.
(b) Many civilizations believe that art arose from an enemy of humanity.
(c) That the arts are corrupt.
(d) Many civilizations believe that science arose from an enemy of humanity.

4. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?
(a) Embrace it.
(b) Men should be humiliated by this.
(c) Be humbled by it.
(d) Be proud of it.

5. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?
(a) The arts and sciences were only a luxury.
(b) They discovered that they were better off in their ignorance.
(c) The needed the arts and sciences.
(d) The arts and sciences were a detrimental luxury.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?

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

4. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

5. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?

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