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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 corrupt human thought.
(b) The improve well roundedness.
(c) They corrupt human importance.
(d) They negate human reason.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What type of land does Rousseau prefer to live in?
(a) Where no man is equal.
(b) Where he can live freely.
(c) Where no art exists.
(d) Where everyone is equal.

8. How did older centuries think of natural law, according to Rousseau?
(a) Beyond science.
(b) Beyond art.
(c) Beyond humanity.
(d) Beyond ethics.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Rousseau want everyone to recognize in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The power of greed.
(b) The authority of the state.
(c) The authority of art.
(d) The wealth of the land.

14. Where did Rousseau analyze the effects of the arts and sciences on at the end of "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences. Part 1"?
(a) England.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) Germany.

15. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?
(a) America's industrialism.
(b) Europe's fall of empire.
(c) Rome's fall of empire.
(d) Europe's barbarism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true philosophy, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

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

3. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?

4. What do few artists defend according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

5. What good definition is hard to find, according to Rousseau?

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