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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 one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Art.
(d) Music.

2. What does Rousseau believe government did NOT evolve from?
(a) Arbitrary power.
(b) Gods and kings.
(c) Mindless ideas.
(d) Rich men.

3. Where does Rousseau question language evolved from?
(a) Through prayer.
(b) Between the parent and child.
(c) In the savage and animal.
(d) In religious mediations.

4. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?
(a) Money.
(b) Government.
(c) Without greed and power.
(d) Without tyrants or wars.

5. What would make property rights equal?
(a) New government.
(b) New leadership.
(c) War.
(d) If human talents were equal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rousseau believe men should feel at the state of leaving ignorance?

2. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?

3. What does Rousseau say arts require?

4. What summarizes the end of "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

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

(see the answer key)

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