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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should society teach men to do instead of pursuing virtue, according to Rousseau?
(a) To be humble.
(b) To love.
(c) Their role.
(d) Their duty.

2. What is the abuse of morality generated by, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) The growth of inequality between men.
(b) The use of science.
(c) The growth of desire.
(d) The growth of social classes.

3. What did Rousseau believe created physics?
(a) Pride.
(b) Greed.
(c) Idleness.
(d) Desire.

4. Who did Rousseau praise for his ignorance in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part 1"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Issac Newton.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Aristotle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does luxury generate according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

2. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?

4. What created ethics according to Rousseau?

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

(see the answer key)

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