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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 type of state is Rousseau interested in having?
(a) One that is poor.
(b) One that is uninterested by conquest.
(c) One that is interested by conquest.
(d) One that is powerful.

2. What is Rousseau's biggest worry when discussing the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences in?
(a) To be selective in his research.
(b) To not be objective.
(c) It is difficult to treat the subject properly.
(d) That he will not explain it.

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

4. 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) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) England.

5. 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) If morality purifies science.
(c) How morality and corruption affect one another.
(d) If corruption negates artistic quality.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?

3. How is wasting time viewed by society today, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

4. What does Rousseau say arts require?

5. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how were humans more secure in earlier societies?

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