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

2. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?
(a) Men were ignorant to it.
(b) With passion.
(c) Men had a rude but natural morality.
(d) Men ignored it.

3. 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) Rome's fall of empire.
(d) America's industrialism.

4. Which was NOT a result in France from leaving behind ignorance?
(a) Increased slavery.
(b) Profligacy.
(c) Equality.
(d) Luxury.

5. What does Rousseau's "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" discuss about the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences and morality?
(a) If corruption negates artistic quality.
(b) How morality and corruption affect one another.
(c) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.
(d) If morality purifies science.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?

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

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

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

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