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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Rousseau reflect on at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The origin of music.
(b) The origin of the stars.
(c) The origin of life.
(d) The origin of inequality.

5. What does Rousseau believe happens with the more a human knows?
(a) Less time for mischief.
(b) More time to want greed.
(c) More time to discuss topics.
(d) More time for mischief.

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

7. Which other civilizations were NOT mentioned by Rousseau as being impacted by the progress of art?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Rome.
(c) Greece.
(d) Ancient Egypt.

8. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?
(a) The arts and sciences were a detrimental luxury.
(b) The arts and sciences were only a luxury.
(c) The needed the arts and sciences.
(d) They discovered that they were better off in their ignorance.

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

10. According to Rousseau, why does science lead to war?
(a) It produces better weapons.
(b) It enables the desire of revenge.
(c) It allows plan of attacks.
(d) It gives knowledge.

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

12. What has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?
(a) The progress of art.
(b) Government contol.
(c) Wars.
(d) The progress of arts and sciences.

13. What does one have no time to learn when he or she is learning science, according to Rousseau?
(a) Music.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Art.

14. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?
(a) Luxury.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Light.
(d) Pleasures.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?

2. What does Rousseau consider to see if the contradiction he found was true?

3. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?

4. 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"?

5. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?

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