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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau question moral behavior could strictly be brought about by?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Ignorance.

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

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

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

5. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?
(a) The printing press.
(b) War.
(c) History.
(d) Art and artists.

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

7. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Pride and corruption of intelligence.
(b) Greed.
(c) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(d) Luxury and the corruption of taste.

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

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

10. How does Rousseau want to live and die?
(a) With power.
(b) With love.
(c) In solitude.
(d) Freely.

11. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Aristotle.

12. 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 art.
(c) The wealth of the land.
(d) The authority of the state.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?

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