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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. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
(a) The public rejected it.
(b) The public embraced it.
(c) It stifled mans' original liberty and caused people to love their slavery.
(d) Nothing.

2. How do modern centuries see natural law?
(a) Rules given to men, given to themselves.
(b) Understood rules.
(c) Accepted societal behavior.
(d) Rules.

3. Where does political authority ultimately derive from, according to Rousseau?
(a) The will of all men.
(b) The will of the priests.
(c) The will of one man.
(d) The will of each man.

4. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Weatlth.
(c) Love.
(d) Virtue.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is much disagreement made over, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

2. What is public economy, according to Rousseau?

3. What things does Rousseau compare at the beginning of "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy"?

4. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

5. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?

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