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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. 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"?
(a) Their wickedness.
(b) Their infatuation.
(c) Their narcissism.
(d) Their kindness.

2. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(b) Talent and beauty are not defined.
(c) Beauty makes one work harder.
(d) Talent is defined, but not beauty.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?

2. Why does Rousseau think men lie under restraint?

3. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?

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

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

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