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

2. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how were humans more secure in earlier societies?
(a) They had no pretentions.
(b) No one was deemed better or worse than another.
(c) They could "see through" one another.
(d) They weren't more secure.

3. What type of land does Rousseau prefer to live in?
(a) Where everyone is equal.
(b) Where no man is equal.
(c) Where he can live freely.
(d) Where no art exists.

4. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?
(a) Political equality.
(b) Results of inequality.
(c) The outcome of equality.
(d) Detriment.

5. What things does Rousseau compare at the beginning of "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy"?
(a) Governmental control.
(b) The disanalogy of family to national economy.
(c) Men and women and the church.
(d) Rich and poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rousseau want to live and die?

2. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?

3. Why does Rousseau think men lie under restraint?

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

5. What does Rousseau say arts require?

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