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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 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 one cared for art.
(b) If no art was made.
(c) If art was deemed evil.
(d) If art was banished.

2. What does Rousseau believe follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Freedom and instinct.
(c) Slavery and misery.
(d) Freeedom.

3. When does Rousseau believe inequality came?
(a) When democracy was weakest.
(b) When democracy was strongest.
(c) When people noticed power.
(d) When people desire power.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does philosophy do?

2. Who did Rousseau praise for his ignorance in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part 1"?

3. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?

4. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?

5. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?

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