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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 would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) If art was deemed evil.
(b) If no art was made.
(c) If art was banished.
(d) If no one cared for art.

2. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?
(a) It's necessary.
(b) It's evil.
(c) It's a good thing.
(d) It allows growth.

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

4. What does philosophy do?
(a) Introverts the human.
(b) Isolates the human.
(c) Broadens the human.
(d) Enlightens the human.

5. What do men have that can be combined, according to Rousseau?
(a) Senses and fears.
(b) Ideas and desires.
(c) Fears and wants.
(d) Ideas and senses.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?

2. Where do people begin to crowd as luxury grows, according to Rousseau?

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

4. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?

5. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?

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