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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 has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?
(a) The progress of arts and sciences.
(b) Government contol.
(c) The progress of art.
(d) Wars.

2. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Pride and corruption of intelligence.
(b) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(c) Greed.
(d) Luxury and the corruption of taste.

3. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?
(a) Art.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Music.

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) One must learn to understand virtue.
(b) They are polar opposites.
(c) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.
(d) They are contradictory.

5. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?
(a) The Romans and Greeks.
(b) The Germans and Irish.
(c) The Romans and Germans.
(d) The English and Greeks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What created ethics according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?

4. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?

5. What should society teach men to do instead of pursuing virtue, according to Rousseau?

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