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 cannot be uncovered about nature's inequality, according to Rousseau?
(a) The source.
(b) The detriment.
(c) The result.
(d) The reason.

2. What does Rousseau question moral behavior could strictly be brought about by?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Ignorance.

3. According to Rousseau, who destroyed human compassion?
(a) Power.
(b) Desire.
(c) Greed.
(d) Modern depravity.

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

5. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?
(a) To hide their wickedness.
(b) Secrecy is best.
(c) To keep their personal secrets.
(d) To have more land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?

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

3. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?

4. Which other civilizations were NOT mentioned by Rousseau as being impacted by the progress of art?

5. What does Rousseau argue at the beginning of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 235 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample