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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 type of rights does Rousseau want the cities in his State to have?
(a) To vote.
(b) To make laws.
(c) To make war.
(d) To make peace.

2. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Talent and beauty are not defined.
(b) Beauty makes one work harder.
(c) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(d) Talent is defined, but not beauty.

3. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?
(a) Engineering.
(b) The sciences.
(c) The arts.
(d) Religion.

4. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?
(a) Their overall emotions.
(b) Their heated emotions.
(c) Their natural emotions.
(d) Their irrational emotions.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Rousseau say wise men do not chase?

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