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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau say the size of the state should be in order to propose laws freely?
(a) Equal.
(b) Large.
(c) Enormous.
(d) Small.

3. 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) Love.
(b) Remedies.
(c) Power.
(d) Money.

4. Why does Rousseau think men lie under restraint?
(a) He doesn't think they lie.
(b) To feel control.
(c) To be controlled.
(d) So they can hide their motives and suppress them.

5. 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 banished.
(d) If art was deemed evil.

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

7. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Virtue and morality.
(b) Morality and learning.
(c) Learning and ignorance.
(d) Virtue and learning.

8. 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 social classes.
(b) The growth of inequality between men.
(c) The use of science.
(d) The growth of desire.

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

10. How many natural principles does Rousseau see in humanity at the end of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

11. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Talent is defined, but not beauty.
(b) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(c) Beauty makes one work harder.
(d) Talent and beauty are not defined.

12. What type of rights does Rousseau want the cities in his State to have?
(a) To vote.
(b) To make war.
(c) To make peace.
(d) To make laws.

13. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?
(a) Giving up power.
(b) Incomplete passion.
(c) Complete idleness.
(d) Complete desire.

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

15. 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) Angry.
(d) Civilized.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, why does science lead to war?

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

3. The arts and sciences have helped human beings to repress what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

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

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

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