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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. 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"?
(a) Their infatuation.
(b) Their narcissism.
(c) Their wickedness.
(d) Their kindness.

2. How does Rousseau want to live and die?
(a) In solitude.
(b) With love.
(c) Freely.
(d) With power.

3. Who is Rousseau saddened by in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) His citizen's loss of power.
(b) His citizen's loss of equality.
(c) His citizen's loss of freedom.
(d) Himself.

4. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?
(a) Improve them.
(b) Worsen them.
(c) Affect them.
(d) Strengthen them.

5. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?
(a) Distrust the state.
(b) Trust one another.
(c) Distrust the government.
(d) Distrust one another.

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. How do modern centuries see natural law?

3. Slavery makes people tend to be what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

4. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?

5. What does Rousseau question moral behavior could strictly be brought about by?

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