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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT mentioned being a result of luxury?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Mechanical arts.
(c) Letters.
(d) Happiness.

2. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?
(a) They discovered that they were better off in their ignorance.
(b) The arts and sciences were only a luxury.
(c) The needed the arts and sciences.
(d) The arts and sciences were a detrimental luxury.

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

4. What does Rousseau's "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" discuss about the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences and morality?
(a) How morality and corruption affect one another.
(b) If morality purifies science.
(c) If corruption negates artistic quality.
(d) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.

5. What does amore-propre preserve?
(a) The desire.
(b) The nature.
(c) The greed.
(d) The species.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rousseau saddened by in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

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

3. In "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy", what is the public economy's authority?

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

5. According to Rousseau, what is the state composed of without citizens?

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