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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 did Rousseau believe created physics?
(a) Pride.
(b) Greed.
(c) Desire.
(d) Idleness.

2. What does Rousseau want everyone to recognize in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The authority of art.
(b) The authority of the state.
(c) The wealth of the land.
(d) The power of greed.

3. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Music.
(c) Art.
(d) Virtue.

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

5. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Virtue and learning.
(b) Learning and ignorance.
(c) Virtue and morality.
(d) Morality and learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of government worries Rousseau?

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

3. What should society teach men to do instead of pursuing virtue, according to Rousseau?

4. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?

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

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