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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. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?
(a) Textbook writers.
(b) Historians.
(c) Priests.
(d) Kings.

2. 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?
(a) If corruption negates artistic quality.
(b) How morality and corruption affect one another.
(c) If morality purifies science.
(d) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.

3. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

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

5. What created ethics according to Rousseau?
(a) Desire.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Greed.
(d) Pride.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rousseau believe created physics?

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

3. 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"?

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

5. Who does Rousseau think promulgates wicked doctrines?

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