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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 should society teach men to do instead of pursuing virtue, according to Rousseau?
(a) To love.
(b) To be humble.
(c) Their role.
(d) Their duty.

2. How did older centuries think of natural law, according to Rousseau?
(a) Beyond ethics.
(b) Beyond art.
(c) Beyond science.
(d) Beyond humanity.

3. What is human understanding rooted in, according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Passions.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Compassion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can only be brought about by ignorance given its results according to Rousseau?

2. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?

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. According to Rousseau, what is the savage man of nature focused on?

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

(see the answer key)

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