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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. How does Rousseau believe men should feel at the state of leaving ignorance?
(a) Ambivalent.
(b) Discerned.
(c) Humiliated.
(d) Proud.

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

3. Where did Rousseau analyze the effects of the arts and sciences on at the end of "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences. Part 1"?
(a) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) France.

4. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?
(a) Art and artists.
(b) The printing press.
(c) War.
(d) History.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau want all individuals to have love for?

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

3. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?

4. What created ethics according to Rousseau?

5. 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"?

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