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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 the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Luxury and the corruption of taste.
(b) Pride and corruption of intelligence.
(c) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(d) Greed.

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

3. What did Rousseau believe created physics?
(a) Greed.
(b) Desire.
(c) Idleness.
(d) Pride.

4. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Art.
(d) Moral corruption.

5. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hermes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?

2. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?

3. The arts and sciences have helped human beings to repress what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

4. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?

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

(see the answer key)

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