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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 was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It stifled mans' original liberty and caused people to love their slavery.
(c) The public embraced it.
(d) The public rejected it.
2. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?
(a) Distrust the government.
(b) Distrust one another.
(c) Distrust the state.
(d) Trust one another.
3. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?
(a) Nature.
(b) Weather.
(c) Government.
(d) Society.
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 infatuation.
(b) Their kindness.
(c) Their wickedness.
(d) Their narcissism.
5. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?
(a) Embrace it.
(b) Be humbled by it.
(c) Men should be humiliated by this.
(d) Be proud of it.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Rousseau think promulgates wicked doctrines?
2. What does Rousseau say arts require?
3. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?
4. What does Rousseau want to know about the "strong"?
5. What did some individuals grow rich enough for as a result of inventions?
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