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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Rousseau thank at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) His parents.
(b) His wife.
(c) His sovereign lords.
(d) His children.

3. Who does Rousseau think promulgates wicked doctrines?
(a) Philosphers.
(b) Priests.
(c) Artists.
(d) Scientists.

4. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?
(a) It moves humans from their original state.
(b) It takes humans away from the natural.
(c) It renders the human blind.
(d) It enables the human to question everything.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

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

3. 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"?

4. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?

5. What must Rousseau first figure out before writing "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?

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