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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe helped man use nature?
(a) Natural reason.
(b) Free will.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Force.

2. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?
(a) With passion.
(b) Men ignored it.
(c) Men were ignorant to it.
(d) Men had a rude but natural morality.

3. What is true philosophy, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Knowing how to speak.
(b) Knowing consequence.
(c) Knowing how to act.
(d) Knowing power.

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

5. What does Rousseau believe divides a repressed man?
(a) Reflex and emotions.
(b) Amore-propre and primitive emotions.
(c) Instinct and reflex.
(d) Carnal and natural desire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Rousseau think men lie under restraint?

3. What does Rousseau believe follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?

4. What did men dwell on according to Rousseau in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

5. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?

(see the answer key)

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