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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.
(b) They are contradictory.
(c) They are polar opposites.
(d) One must learn to understand virtue.

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

3. What was the result of new tools being invented, according to Rousseau?
(a) Men's interests began to coincide.
(b) Violence and death.
(c) Men's interests began to conflict.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?
(a) Economic inequality.
(b) State inequalitry.
(c) Personal inequality.
(d) National inequliaty.

5. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?
(a) The sciences.
(b) The arts.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rousseau thank at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

2. What did the rich become, according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?

4. According to Rousseau, what do passions allow for the human?

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

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