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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 is much disagreement made over, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The nature of man.
(b) The nature of greed.
(c) The evolution of man.
(d) The evolution of greed.

2. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?
(a) It's necessary.
(b) It's evil.
(c) It's a good thing.
(d) It allows growth.

3. What did Rousseau believe created physics?
(a) Desire.
(b) Pride.
(c) Idleness.
(d) Greed.

4. What does Rousseau say the size of the state should be in order to propose laws freely?
(a) Small.
(b) Large.
(c) Enormous.
(d) Equal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

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

3. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?

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

5. 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"?

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