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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 Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?
(a) Live in exile.
(b) Reap glory and remain obscure.
(c) Be humble.
(d) Show compassion.

2. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Love.
(c) Weatlth.
(d) Compassion.

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

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

5. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
(a) It stifled mans' original liberty and caused people to love their slavery.
(b) The public rejected it.
(c) The public embraced it.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, why does science lead to war?

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

3. Who does Rousseau think promulgates wicked doctrines?

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

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

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