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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final stage of maturation of inequality, according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?
(a) Ego.
(b) Talent.
(c) Despotism.
(d) Desire.

2. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?
(a) Historians.
(b) Textbook writers.
(c) Kings.
(d) Priests.

3. 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?
(a) They could "see through" one another.
(b) No one was deemed better or worse than another.
(c) They had no pretentions.
(d) They weren't more secure.

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 a detrimental luxury.
(c) The needed the arts and sciences.
(d) The arts and sciences were only a luxury.

5. What does Rousseau argue about the discovery of the nature man?
(a) There is direct evidence.
(b) There is no direct evidence.
(c) It is natural and innate.
(d) It is odd and perplexing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What led to government through a non moral process?

2. What was man's first feeling, according to Rousseau?

3. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?

4. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?

5. Who is Rousseau saddened by in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

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