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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. What type of government worries Rousseau?
(a) Republican.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Green.
(d) Democratic.

2. When does Rousseau believe inequality came?
(a) When people noticed power.
(b) When people desire power.
(c) When democracy was strongest.
(d) When democracy was weakest.

3. What good definition is hard to find, according to Rousseau?
(a) Human law.
(b) Human greed.
(c) Natural law.
(d) Natural greed.

4. What is the final stage of maturation of inequality, according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?
(a) Ego.
(b) Talent.
(c) Desire.
(d) Despotism.

5. How does Rousseau want to live and die?
(a) With power.
(b) With love.
(c) Freely.
(d) In solitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau want all individuals to have love for?

2. What is true philosophy, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

3. What does Rousseau believe helped man use nature?

4. What does Rousseau mention men differ in as common character starts to develop within the human?

5. How does Rousseau see the state of man in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

(see the answer key)

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