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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 has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?
(a) Wars.
(b) The progress of arts and sciences.
(c) Government contol.
(d) The progress of art.

2. What is the main task of Rousseau's, "The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?
(a) To discuss the history of inequality.
(b) To compare and contrast equality vs inequality.
(c) To discover origins.
(d) To discover the origin of inequality.

3. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Pride and corruption of intelligence.
(b) Greed.
(c) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(d) Luxury and the corruption of taste.

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

5. What led to government through a non moral process?
(a) The strong opressed the weak.
(b) The weak ignored their control.
(c) The strong helped the weak.
(d) The weak defeated themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?

2. What is the final stage of maturation of inequality, according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?

3. What does Rousseau want everyone to recognize in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

4. What does Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?

5. What does Rousseau believe follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?

(see the answer key)

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