View a FREE sample

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 makes use of human understanding, according to Rousseau?
(a) Law.
(b) Grammar.
(c) Nature.
(d) Brain.

2. What does philosophy do?
(a) Isolates the human.
(b) Enlightens the human.
(c) Introverts the human.
(d) Broadens the human.

3. What does Rousseau believe is an artist's greatest compensation for his labor?
(a) Display.
(b) Money.
(c) Praise.
(d) Admiration.

4. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?
(a) War.
(b) Art and artists.
(c) History.
(d) The printing press.

5. What is Rousseau's biggest worry when discussing the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences in?
(a) It is difficult to treat the subject properly.
(b) To not be objective.
(c) To be selective in his research.
(d) That he will not explain it.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. When does Rousseau believe inequality came?

3. What good definition is hard to find, according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau argue about the discovery of the nature man?

5. What does Rousseau believe helped man use nature?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 222 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample