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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, why does science lead to war?
(a) It produces better weapons.
(b) It gives knowledge.
(c) It enables the desire of revenge.
(d) It allows plan of attacks.

2. What created ethics according to Rousseau?
(a) Greed.
(b) Desire.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Pride.

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

4. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?
(a) The English and Greeks.
(b) The Romans and Germans.
(c) The Germans and Irish.
(d) The Romans and Greeks.

5. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?
(a) Incomplete passion.
(b) Complete desire.
(c) Complete idleness.
(d) Giving up power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau consider to see if the contradiction he found was true?

3. What is Rousseau's biggest worry when discussing the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences in?

4. 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"?

5. 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"?

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