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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. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?
(a) The establishment of beauty.
(b) The establishment of talent.
(c) The progress of art.
(d) The progress of talent.

2. What has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?
(a) The progress of arts and sciences.
(b) Wars.
(c) The progress of art.
(d) Government contol.

3. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?
(a) Secrecy is best.
(b) To keep their personal secrets.
(c) To hide their wickedness.
(d) To have more land.

4. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?
(a) Without greed and power.
(b) Without tyrants or wars.
(c) Money.
(d) Government.

5. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?
(a) Textbook writers.
(b) Priests.
(c) Historians.
(d) Kings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau believe is an artist's greatest compensation for his labor?

3. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?

4. Slavery makes people tend to be what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

5. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?

(see the answer key)

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