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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 should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?
(a) Be proud of it.
(b) Embrace it.
(c) Be humbled by it.
(d) Men should be humiliated by this.

2. 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) Nothing.
(d) It stifled mans' original liberty and caused people to love their slavery.

3. What does Rousseau consider to see if the contradiction he found was true?
(a) The wealth of the state.
(b) The arts and sciences.
(c) The church.
(d) The government.

4. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?
(a) They corrupt human importance.
(b) The improve well roundedness.
(c) They corrupt human thought.
(d) They negate human reason.

5. 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) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?

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

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

4. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?

5. Why does Rousseau think men lie under restraint?

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