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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Affiliated.
(b) Angry.
(c) Equal.
(d) Civilized.

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

3. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?
(a) It moves humans from their original state.
(b) It takes humans away from the natural.
(c) It enables the human to question everything.
(d) It renders the human blind.

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

5. 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) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

6. What does Rousseau question moral behavior could strictly be brought about by?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Tolerance.
(d) Ignorance.

7. What type of state is Rousseau interested in having?
(a) One that is poor.
(b) One that is interested by conquest.
(c) One that is powerful.
(d) One that is uninterested by conquest.

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

9. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?
(a) The sciences.
(b) Engineering.
(c) Religion.
(d) The arts.

10. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?
(a) To hide their wickedness.
(b) To have more land.
(c) Secrecy is best.
(d) To keep their personal secrets.

11. What should society teach men to do instead of pursuing virtue, according to Rousseau?
(a) To love.
(b) Their duty.
(c) Their role.
(d) To be humble.

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?

2. What does Rousseau want all individuals to have love for?

3. What is much disagreement made over, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

4. What does Rousseau hope the citizens are able to keep?

5. What does Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?

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