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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?
(a) They negate human reason.
(b) They corrupt human thought.
(c) The improve well roundedness.
(d) They corrupt human importance.

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

3. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.
(b) They are contradictory.
(c) They are polar opposites.
(d) One must learn to understand virtue.

4. Who does Rousseau thank at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) His sovereign lords.
(b) His children.
(c) His parents.
(d) His wife.

5. How do modern centuries see natural law?
(a) Rules.
(b) Understood rules.
(c) Rules given to men, given to themselves.
(d) Accepted societal behavior.

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

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) Learning and ignorance.
(b) Virtue and learning.
(c) Virtue and morality.
(d) Morality and learning.

8. 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 renders the human blind.
(d) It enables the human to question everything.

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

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

11. What does luxury generate according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Greed.
(b) Power.
(c) Social classes.
(d) Time wasted.

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

13. 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) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?

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

5. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?

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