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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. How is wasting time viewed by society today, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Evil.
(c) Good.
(d) Needed.

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

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

5. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) If art was deemed evil.
(b) If art was banished.
(c) If no art was made.
(d) If no one cared for art.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which other civilizations were NOT mentioned by Rousseau as being impacted by the progress of art?

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. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?

5. 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"?

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