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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say the size of the state should be in order to propose laws freely?
(a) Enormous.
(b) Equal.
(c) Large.
(d) Small.

2. What can only be brought about by ignorance given its results according to Rousseau?
(a) Political behavior.
(b) Moral behavior.
(c) Talent.
(d) Bliss.

3. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The public embraced it.
(c) The public rejected it.
(d) It stifled mans' original liberty and caused people to love their slavery.

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

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

6. What does Rousseau argue at the beginning of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) That the government is corrupt.
(b) Many civilizations believe that science arose from an enemy of humanity.
(c) Many civilizations believe that art arose from an enemy of humanity.
(d) That the arts are corrupt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Rousseau want all individuals to have love for?
(a) Their history.
(b) Their parents.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Their country.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rousseau believe men should feel at the state of leaving ignorance?

2. What does Rousseau's "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" discuss about the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences and morality?

3. How did older centuries think of natural law, according to Rousseau?

4. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?

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

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