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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 was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?
(a) The arts and sciences were only a luxury.
(b) The needed the arts and sciences.
(c) They discovered that they were better off in their ignorance.
(d) The arts and sciences were a detrimental luxury.

2. Where did Rousseau analyze the effects of the arts and sciences on at the end of "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences. Part 1"?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) France.
(d) Italy.

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

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) Civilized.
(c) Equal.
(d) Affiliated.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does Rousseau question moral behavior could strictly be brought about by?

4. What is Rousseau's biggest worry when discussing the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences in?

5. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?

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