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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What can only be brought about by ignorance given its results according to Rousseau?
(a) Talent.
(b) Political behavior.
(c) Bliss.
(d) Moral behavior.

4. What do people seek that do not exist, according to Rousseau at the end of Chapter 2, "A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Remedies.
(b) Love.
(c) Power.
(d) Money.

5. What created ethics according to Rousseau?
(a) Greed.
(b) Pride.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Desire.

6. What did Rousseau believe created physics?
(a) Pride.
(b) Desire.
(c) Idleness.
(d) Greed.

7. 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) No one was deemed better or worse than another.
(b) They weren't more secure.
(c) They had no pretentions.
(d) They could "see through" one another.

8. According to Rousseau, why does science lead to war?
(a) It gives knowledge.
(b) It produces better weapons.
(c) It enables the desire of revenge.
(d) It allows plan of attacks.

9. Who does Rousseau think promulgates wicked doctrines?
(a) Priests.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Artists.
(d) Philosphers.

10. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?
(a) Music.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Art.

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

12. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?
(a) Men ignored it.
(b) With passion.
(c) Men were ignorant to it.
(d) Men had a rude but natural morality.

13. What does Rousseau say wise men do not chase?
(a) Power.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Love.
(d) Fortune.

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

15. What does Rousseau reflect on at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The origin of music.
(b) The origin of the stars.
(c) The origin of life.
(d) The origin of inequality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must Rousseau first figure out before writing "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?

2. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?

3. What does Rousseau question moral behavior could strictly be brought about by?

4. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?

5. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?

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