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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What would make an artist sad according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) If art was deemed evil.
(b) If art was banished.
(c) If no one cared for art.
(d) If no art was made.

3. Who did Rousseau praise for his ignorance in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part 1"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Issac Newton.

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

5. 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.

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

7. Who does Rousseau think promulgates wicked doctrines?
(a) Artists.
(b) Philosphers.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Priests.

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

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

10. What do few artists defend according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Their work.
(b) Their family.
(c) Their country.
(d) Their desire.

11. What does Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?
(a) Live in exile.
(b) Be humble.
(c) Reap glory and remain obscure.
(d) Show compassion.

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

13. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Art.
(c) Moral corruption.
(d) Virtue.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?

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

3. 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"?

4. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?

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

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