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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 are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.
(b) One must learn to understand virtue.
(c) They are polar opposites.
(d) They are contradictory.

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

3. What has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?
(a) Government contol.
(b) Wars.
(c) The progress of arts and sciences.
(d) The progress of art.

4. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?
(a) A revolution.
(b) The ability to forgive.
(c) A period of art.
(d) A new period of desire.

5. What does Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?
(a) Be humble.
(b) Reap glory and remain obscure.
(c) Live in exile.
(d) Show compassion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau argue about the discovery of the nature man?

3. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?

4. 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?

5. What type of government worries Rousseau?

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