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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. How does Rousseau believe men should feel at the state of leaving ignorance?
(a) Proud.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Discerned.
(d) Ambivalent.

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

3. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?
(a) The sciences.
(b) Engineering.
(c) The arts.
(d) Religion.

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

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"?
(a) Civilized.
(b) Equal.
(c) Affiliated.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can only be brought about by ignorance given its results according to Rousseau?

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

4. Who did Rousseau praise for his ignorance in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part 1"?

5. What does Rousseau consider to see if the contradiction he found was true?

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