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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 does Rousseau argue about the discovery of the nature man?
(a) It is natural and innate.
(b) There is no direct evidence.
(c) It is odd and perplexing.
(d) There is direct evidence.

2. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?
(a) Government.
(b) Weather.
(c) Society.
(d) Nature.

3. What has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?
(a) Government contol.
(b) Wars.
(c) The progress of art.
(d) The progress of arts and sciences.

4. Which other civilizations were NOT mentioned by Rousseau as being impacted by the progress of art?
(a) Ancient Egypt.
(b) Greece.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Rome.

5. What is human understanding rooted in, according to Rousseau?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Love.
(d) Passions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does amore-propre preserve?

2. According to Rousseau, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?

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

4. What does Rousseau believe divides a repressed man?

5. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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