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

2. According to Rousseau, what is the savage man of nature focused on?
(a) Self preservation.
(b) Arts and sciences.
(c) Self knowledge.
(d) Survival.

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

4. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?
(a) It takes humans away from the natural.
(b) It renders the human blind.
(c) It moves humans from their original state.
(d) It enables the human to question everything.

5. Which was NOT a result in France from leaving behind ignorance?
(a) Profligacy.
(b) Equality.
(c) Increased slavery.
(d) Luxury.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do people begin to crowd as luxury grows, according to Rousseau?

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

3. What is much disagreement made over, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

4. How is wasting time viewed by society today, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

5. How do modern centuries see natural law?

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