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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rousseau's biggest worry when discussing the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences in?
(a) It is difficult to treat the subject properly.
(b) To be selective in his research.
(c) To not be objective.
(d) That he will not explain it.

2. What does Rousseau hope the citizens are able to keep?
(a) Hope.
(b) Their democracy.
(c) Faith.
(d) Power.

3. What is the abuse of morality generated by, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) The growth of inequality between men.
(b) The growth of social classes.
(c) The growth of desire.
(d) The use of science.

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

5. 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) If corruption negates artistic quality.
(b) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.
(c) If morality purifies science.
(d) How morality and corruption affect one another.

6. What does Rousseau say arts require?
(a) Talent.
(b) Passion.
(c) Luxury.
(d) Power.

7. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?
(a) War.
(b) History.
(c) The printing press.
(d) Art and artists.

8. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

9. Slavery makes people tend to be what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Equal.
(b) Affiliated.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Angry.

10. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?
(a) The progress of talent.
(b) The establishment of talent.
(c) The progress of art.
(d) The establishment of beauty.

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

12. What does Rousseau believe is an artist's greatest compensation for his labor?
(a) Praise.
(b) Display.
(c) Money.
(d) Admiration.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of state is Rousseau interested in having?

2. What does luxury generate according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

3. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?

4. What is the main task of Rousseau's, "The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?

5. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?

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