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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 does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?
(a) Distrust one another.
(b) Distrust the government.
(c) Trust one another.
(d) Distrust the state.

2. According to Rousseau, why does science lead to war?
(a) It enables the desire of revenge.
(b) It gives knowledge.
(c) It allows plan of attacks.
(d) It produces better weapons.

3. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?
(a) Survival.
(b) Reproduction.
(c) Sensation.
(d) Family.

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

5. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) If no art was made.
(b) If art was banished.
(c) If art was deemed evil.
(d) If no one cared for art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What summarizes the end of "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

2. What does Rousseau believe government did NOT evolve from?

3. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

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

5. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?

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