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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grew when the family grew, according to Rousseau?
(a) Maternal affection.
(b) Paternal affection.
(c) Companionship.
(d) Trust.

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

3. What does Rousseau believe helped man use nature?
(a) Force.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Natural reason.
(d) Free will.

4. According to Rousseau, what is the savage man of nature focused on?
(a) Survival.
(b) Self knowledge.
(c) Arts and sciences.
(d) Self preservation.

5. What does Rousseau want to know about the "strong"?
(a) Who serves the strong.
(b) How they came to serve the weak.
(c) Why they do not serve the weak.
(d) Why they serve the weak.

6. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?
(a) Family.
(b) Sensation.
(c) Survival.
(d) Reproduction.

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

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

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

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

11. What is a natural virtue considered to be, according to Rousseau?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Desire.
(d) Love.

12. According to Rousseau, what is the outcome of man's labor?
(a) Continual suffrage.
(b) More greed.
(c) Nothing.
(d) More resources.

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

14. What makes use of human understanding, according to Rousseau?
(a) Nature.
(b) Brain.
(c) Law.
(d) Grammar.

15. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?
(a) Natural right.
(b) Natural law.
(c) Human rights.
(d) Human law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe does not preserve one's liberty?

2. What does Rousseau feel differing forms of government result in?

3. What is the final stage of maturation of inequality, according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?

4. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?

5. What did men dwell on according to Rousseau in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

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