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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, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?
(a) Reason.
(b) Reason and religion.
(c) Power and religion.
(d) Government and the law.

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

3. What does Rousseau's "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" discuss about the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences and morality?
(a) If morality purifies science.
(b) How morality and corruption affect one another.
(c) If corruption negates artistic quality.
(d) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.

4. 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"?
(a) Their wickedness.
(b) Their infatuation.
(c) Their kindness.
(d) Their narcissism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?

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

3. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

4. What does Rousseau argue at the beginning of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

5. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?

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