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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. According to Rousseau, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?
(a) Government and the law.
(b) Reason and religion.
(c) Reason.
(d) Power and religion.

2. Who did Rousseau praise for his ignorance in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part 1"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Issac Newton.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

3. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
(a) The public embraced it.
(b) The public rejected it.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It stifled mans' original liberty and caused people to love their slavery.

4. Slavery makes people tend to be what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Angry.
(b) Affiliated.
(c) Equal.
(d) Civilized.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?

2. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?

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

4. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?

5. 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"?

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