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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Equal.
(c) Angry.
(d) Civilized.

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

4. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?
(a) The Germans and Irish.
(b) The English and Greeks.
(c) The Romans and Germans.
(d) The Romans and Greeks.

5. 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"?
(a) Their wickedness.
(b) Their infatuation.
(c) Their kindness.
(d) Their narcissism.

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

7. What must Rousseau first figure out before writing "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?
(a) History of greed.
(b) History of humans.
(c) The nature of humans.
(d) The nature of civilization.

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

9. According to Rousseau, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?
(a) Power and religion.
(b) Government and the law.
(c) Reason and religion.
(d) Reason.

10. What does Rousseau understand about the idleness in children?
(a) It's a good thing.
(b) It allows growth.
(c) It's necessary.
(d) It's evil.

11. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?
(a) Without tyrants or wars.
(b) Government.
(c) Without greed and power.
(d) Money.

12. 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.

13. How does Rousseau want to live and die?
(a) With power.
(b) In solitude.
(c) Freely.
(d) With love.

14. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Luxury.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Ignorance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau reflect on at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

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

4. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

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

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