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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 see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Morality and learning.
(b) Virtue and learning.
(c) Learning and ignorance.
(d) Virtue and morality.

2. How does Rousseau want to live and die?
(a) In solitude.
(b) Freely.
(c) With love.
(d) With power.

3. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?
(a) Without greed and power.
(b) Money.
(c) Without tyrants or wars.
(d) Government.

4. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?
(a) Family.
(b) Survival.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Sensation.

5. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Art.
(b) Moral corruption.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

2. What does Rousseau believe helped man use nature?

3. How does Rousseau think the gods will react to people forming a more perfect union?

4. What does Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?

5. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?

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