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

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) Issac Newton.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Socrates.

3. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Hermes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

4. Which was NOT a result in France from leaving behind ignorance?

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

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