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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?
(a) Historians.
(b) Kings.
(c) Priests.
(d) Textbook writers.

4. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?
(a) Distrust one another.
(b) Distrust the state.
(c) Trust one another.
(d) Distrust the government.

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 narcissism.
(b) Their kindness.
(c) Their wickedness.
(d) Their infatuation.

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

7. Who is Rousseau saddened by in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) His citizen's loss of power.
(b) His citizen's loss of freedom.
(c) Himself.
(d) His citizen's loss of equality.

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

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

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

11. 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) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) France.
(d) England.

12. What does Rousseau consider to see if the contradiction he found was true?
(a) The arts and sciences.
(b) The government.
(c) The church.
(d) The wealth of the state.

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) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

14. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?
(a) Affect them.
(b) Improve them.
(c) Worsen them.
(d) Strengthen them.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the main task of Rousseau's, "The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?

3. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

4. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?

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

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