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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 hope the citizens are able to keep?
(a) Faith.
(b) Their democracy.
(c) Hope.
(d) Power.

2. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?
(a) Engineering.
(b) The sciences.
(c) Religion.
(d) The arts.

3. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?
(a) State inequalitry.
(b) Economic inequality.
(c) National inequliaty.
(d) Personal inequality.

4. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Music.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Art.

5. How does Rousseau see the state of man in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Unhealthy.
(b) Happy and natural.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Chaotic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe divides a repressed man?

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

3. What is at conflict in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" that concerns Rousseau?

4. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?

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

(see the answer key)

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