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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 government did NOT evolve from?
(a) Mindless ideas.
(b) Arbitrary power.
(c) Gods and kings.
(d) Rich men.

2. 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 act.
(b) Knowing consequence.
(c) Knowing power.
(d) Knowing how to speak.

3. What type of land does Rousseau prefer to live in?
(a) Where everyone is equal.
(b) Where no art exists.
(c) Where he can live freely.
(d) Where no man is equal.

4. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?
(a) Distrust the state.
(b) Distrust one another.
(c) Trust one another.
(d) Distrust the government.

5. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?
(a) Their overall emotions.
(b) Their heated emotions.
(c) Their irrational emotions.
(d) Their natural emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what do men have that is difficult to control?

2. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how were humans more secure in earlier societies?

3. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?

4. What would make property rights equal?

5. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?

(see the answer key)

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