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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 created ethics according to Rousseau?
(a) Greed.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Pride.
(d) Desire.

2. What would make property rights equal?
(a) New government.
(b) New leadership.
(c) If human talents were equal.
(d) War.

3. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?
(a) Embrace it.
(b) Be proud of it.
(c) Be humbled by it.
(d) Men should be humiliated by this.

4. What does Rousseau feel happens to the state as a result of luxury development?
(a) It grows rich, but sometimes depopulates themselves.
(b) The quality of life increases.
(c) It grows poor.
(d) It grows greedy.

5. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?
(a) Europe's fall of empire.
(b) America's industrialism.
(c) Rome's fall of empire.
(d) Europe's barbarism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened as words grew in number?

2. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?

3. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?

4. Who does Rousseau thank at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

5. What type of government worries Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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