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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. How does Rousseau believe men should feel at the state of leaving ignorance?
(a) Humiliated.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Discerned.
(d) Proud.

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 how to speak.
(d) Knowing power.

3. What does Rousseau say the size of the state should be in order to propose laws freely?
(a) Equal.
(b) Large.
(c) Small.
(d) Enormous.

4. The arts and sciences have helped human beings to repress what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Their kindness.
(b) Their narcissism.
(c) Their infatuation.
(d) Their wickedness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe happens with the more a human knows?

2. What type of state is Rousseau interested in having?

3. What does Rousseau believe does not preserve one's liberty?

4. How did older centuries think of natural law, according to Rousseau?

5. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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