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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. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.
(b) One must learn to understand virtue.
(c) They are polar opposites.
(d) They are contradictory.

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

3. Who did Rousseau praise for his ignorance in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part 1"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Issac Newton.
(d) Aristotle.

4. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?
(a) It's evil.
(b) It's a good thing.
(c) It's necessary.
(d) It allows growth.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau say wise men do not chase?

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

5. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

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