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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau feel happens to the state as a result of luxury development?
(a) It grows rich, but sometimes depopulates themselves.
(b) The quality of life increases.
(c) It grows poor.
(d) It grows greedy.

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

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

4. What does Rousseau mention men differ in as common character starts to develop within the human?
(a) Beauty and wealth.
(b) Beauty and talent.
(c) Wealth and beauty.
(d) Wealth only.

5. What does Rousseau compare in his illustration in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Modern time to prehistoric time.
(b) The modern woman to the savage man.
(c) Governmental rule and religious rule.
(d) The modern man to the savage man.

6. What does Rousseau think about the man who invented property rights?
(a) He was smart.
(b) He doesn't say anything about it.
(c) He was rude.
(d) He pulled one over on his fellows.

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

8. What do men have that can be combined, according to Rousseau?
(a) Senses and fears.
(b) Fears and wants.
(c) Ideas and senses.
(d) Ideas and desires.

9. What did the poor become, according to Rousseau?
(a) Thieves.
(b) Rude.
(c) Greedy.
(d) Moral.

10. According to Rousseau, what do men have that is difficult to control?
(a) Anger.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Instincts.
(d) Desire.

11. What can society no longer exist on after luxury is introduced, according to Rousseau?
(a) Peaceful existence.
(b) Private income.
(c) Crops.
(d) Plants and acorns.

12. What happened as words grew in number?
(a) Religion.
(b) Cognition.
(c) Power.
(d) Speech.

13. What is at conflict in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" that concerns Rousseau?
(a) Men's desires.
(b) Men's thought process.
(c) Men's behavior.
(d) Men's interests.

14. How does society subsist according to Rousseau?
(a) Gaining at others' expense.
(b) Governmental taxation.
(c) Illegal control.
(d) Lies.

15. What led to government through a non moral process?
(a) The weak ignored their control.
(b) The strong helped the weak.
(c) The strong opressed the weak.
(d) The weak defeated themselves.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would make property rights equal?

3. According to Rousseau, what is the savage man of nature focused on?

4. What was the result of new tools being invented, according to Rousseau?

5. According to Rousseau, what do passions allow for the human?

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