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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What cannot be uncovered about nature's inequality, according to Rousseau?
(a) The detriment.
(b) The reason.
(c) The source.
(d) The result.

2. What was the result of new tools being invented, according to Rousseau?
(a) Violence and death.
(b) Men's interests began to conflict.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Men's interests began to coincide.

3. What did the rich become, according to Rousseau?
(a) Harsh.
(b) Rude.
(c) Greedy.
(d) Usurpers.

4. What does Rousseau think humans are called to in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Perfection and wealth.
(b) Happiness and wealth.
(c) Perfection and stability.
(d) Happiness and perfection.

5. Which of the following are NOT the natural enemies of mankind, mentioned in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?
(a) Old age.
(b) Disease.
(c) Money.
(d) Animals.

6. What was man's first feeling, according to Rousseau?
(a) His breath.
(b) His existense.
(c) Crying.
(d) Self preservation.

7. When does Rousseau believe inequality came?
(a) When democracy was weakest.
(b) When people noticed power.
(c) When people desire power.
(d) When democracy was strongest.

8. According to Rousseau, what do passions allow for the human?
(a) Improvement of reason.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Degeneration.
(d) Fears and dreams.

9. What does philosophy do?
(a) Broadens the human.
(b) Introverts the human.
(c) Enlightens the human.
(d) Isolates the human.

10. What does Rousseau believe government did NOT evolve from?
(a) Arbitrary power.
(b) Mindless ideas.
(c) Rich men.
(d) Gods and kings.

11. Which of the following was NOT mentioned being a result of luxury?
(a) Letters.
(b) Commerce.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Mechanical arts.

12. What does Rousseau believe follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?
(a) Slavery and misery.
(b) Freeedom.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Freedom and instinct.

13. Where does Rousseau question language evolved from?
(a) In religious mediations.
(b) Between the parent and child.
(c) Through prayer.
(d) In the savage and animal.

14. What was man's second feeling, according to Rousseau?
(a) Self preservation.
(b) His breath.
(c) Crying.
(d) His existence.

15. What is the final stage of maturation of inequality, according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?
(a) Despotism.
(b) Talent.
(c) Desire.
(d) Ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. What leads to sex for man, according to Rousseau?

2. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?

3. How does Rousseau see the state of man in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

4. What does amore-propre preserve?

5. What do men have that can be combined, according to Rousseau?

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