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

2. What do people seek that do not exist, according to Rousseau at the end of Chapter 2, "A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Remedies.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Power.

3. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?
(a) The sciences.
(b) Engineering.
(c) The arts.
(d) Religion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?

3. 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?

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

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

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