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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

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

4. 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?

5. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?

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