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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 was man's first feeling, according to Rousseau?
(a) Self preservation.
(b) His breath.
(c) His existense.
(d) Crying.

2. What do people seek that do not exist, according to Rousseau at the end of Chapter 2, "A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Remedies.
(d) Power.

3. What is a natural virtue considered to be, according to Rousseau?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Desire.
(c) Love.
(d) Virtue.

4. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Pride and corruption of intelligence.
(b) Greed.
(c) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(d) Luxury and the corruption of taste.

5. Which of the following are NOT the natural enemies of mankind, mentioned in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?
(a) Old age.
(b) Animals.
(c) Disease.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was man's second feeling, according to Rousseau?

2. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

3. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

4. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?

5. What does amore-propre preserve?

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