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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 inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Weatlth.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Love.

2. How does Rousseau believe men should feel at the state of leaving ignorance?
(a) Ambivalent.
(b) Discerned.
(c) Humiliated.
(d) Proud.

3. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?
(a) They corrupt human thought.
(b) They negate human reason.
(c) The improve well roundedness.
(d) They corrupt human importance.

4. What does Rousseau argue at the beginning of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) That the government is corrupt.
(b) Many civilizations believe that science arose from an enemy of humanity.
(c) That the arts are corrupt.
(d) Many civilizations believe that art arose from an enemy of humanity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau want all individuals to have love for?

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

3. What is a natural virtue considered to be, according to Rousseau?

4. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?

5. What type of land does Rousseau prefer to live in?

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