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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. 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) Angry.
(b) Affiliated.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Equal.

2. Which other civilizations were NOT mentioned by Rousseau as being impacted by the progress of art?
(a) Greece.
(b) Rome.
(c) Ancient Egypt.
(d) Ireland.

3. Which was NOT a result in France from leaving behind ignorance?
(a) Luxury.
(b) Increased slavery.
(c) Profligacy.
(d) Equality.

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

5. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) One must learn to understand virtue.
(b) They are contradictory.
(c) They are polar opposites.
(d) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.

Short Answer 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"?

2. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

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

4. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how were humans more secure in earlier societies?

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

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