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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rousseau think men lie under restraint?
(a) So they can hide their motives and suppress them.
(b) To be controlled.
(c) To feel control.
(d) He doesn't think they lie.

2. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?
(a) A period of art.
(b) The ability to forgive.
(c) A new period of desire.
(d) A revolution.

3. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Beauty makes one work harder.
(b) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(c) Talent and beauty are not defined.
(d) Talent is defined, but not beauty.

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 wickedness.
(b) Their narcissism.
(c) Their infatuation.
(d) Their kindness.

5. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?
(a) Europe's fall of empire.
(b) Europe's barbarism.
(c) America's industrialism.
(d) Rome's fall of empire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slavery makes people tend to be what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

2. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?

3. Which other civilizations were NOT mentioned by Rousseau as being impacted by the progress of art?

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

5. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how were humans more secure in earlier societies?

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