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

2. What does Rousseau want all individuals to have love for?
(a) Their country.
(b) Their parents.
(c) Their history.
(d) Themselves.

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

4. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?
(a) The needed the arts and sciences.
(b) The arts and sciences were a detrimental luxury.
(c) They discovered that they were better off in their ignorance.
(d) The arts and sciences were only a luxury.

5. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?
(a) Without greed and power.
(b) Money.
(c) Without tyrants or wars.
(d) Government.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?

2. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?

3. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?

4. What type of rights does Rousseau want the cities in his State to have?

5. What has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?

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