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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What good definition is hard to find, according to Rousseau?
(a) Natural greed.
(b) Human law.
(c) Human greed.
(d) Natural law.

2. What is much disagreement made over, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The nature of greed.
(b) The nature of man.
(c) The evolution of man.
(d) The evolution of greed.

3. 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 the stars.
(b) The origin of life.
(c) The origin of inequality.
(d) The origin of music.

4. Where did Rousseau analyze the effects of the arts and sciences on at the end of "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences. Part 1"?
(a) England.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

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

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

7. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?
(a) Textbook writers.
(b) Priests.
(c) Kings.
(d) Historians.

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

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

10. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) If no one cared for art.
(b) If no art was made.
(c) If art was deemed evil.
(d) If art was banished.

11. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?
(a) A revolution.
(b) A period of art.
(c) A new period of desire.
(d) The ability to forgive.

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

13. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Desire.
(c) Art.
(d) Moral corruption.

14. What type of government worries Rousseau?
(a) Green.
(b) Republican.
(c) Dictatorship.
(d) Democratic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?

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

3. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?

4. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?

5. What does Rousseau believe happens with the more a human knows?

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