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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 makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Beauty makes one work harder.
(b) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(c) Talent and beauty are not defined.
(d) Talent is defined, but not beauty.

2. What type of rights does Rousseau want the cities in his State to have?
(a) To make peace.
(b) To vote.
(c) To make war.
(d) To make laws.

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"?
(a) Equal.
(b) Civilized.
(c) Affiliated.
(d) Angry.

4. What is the main task of Rousseau's, "The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?
(a) To discuss the history of inequality.
(b) To discover origins.
(c) To discover the origin of inequality.
(d) To compare and contrast equality vs inequality.

5. What type of land does Rousseau prefer to live in?
(a) Where no man is equal.
(b) Where everyone is equal.
(c) Where he can live freely.
(d) Where no art exists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?

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

3. What is much disagreement made over, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

4. How did older centuries think of natural law, according to Rousseau?

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

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