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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 is the abuse of morality generated by, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) The use of science.
(b) The growth of inequality between men.
(c) The growth of desire.
(d) The growth of social classes.

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

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

4. 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"?
(a) Power.
(b) Love.
(c) Remedies.
(d) Money.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?

4. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?

5. What do few artists defend according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

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