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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 does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?
(a) To hide their wickedness.
(b) To have more land.
(c) To keep their personal secrets.
(d) Secrecy is best.

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

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

4. What does Rousseau believe is an artist's greatest compensation for his labor?
(a) Money.
(b) Praise.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Display.

5. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Luxury.
(d) Slavery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was NOT a result in France from leaving behind ignorance?

2. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?

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

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

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