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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?
(a) State inequalitry.
(b) Personal inequality.
(c) National inequliaty.
(d) Economic inequality.

2. Where do people begin to crowd as luxury grows, according to Rousseau?
(a) The West.
(b) China.
(c) Cities.
(d) The country.

3. What does Rousseau believe does not preserve one's liberty?
(a) Ignoring one's liberty.
(b) Alienation of one's liberty.
(c) Laughing at one's liberty.
(d) Using one's liberty.

4. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?
(a) Society.
(b) Nature.
(c) Government.
(d) Weather.

5. What does Rousseau say separates the sensation of the savage from simple knowledge?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A gulf.
(c) A bridge.
(d) A universe.

6. 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) Money.
(b) Animals.
(c) Disease.
(d) Old age.

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

8. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?
(a) Their irrational emotions.
(b) Their overall emotions.
(c) Their heated emotions.
(d) Their natural emotions.

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

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

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

12. How does Rousseau see the state of man in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Unhealthy.
(b) Chaotic.
(c) Happy and natural.
(d) Unnatural.

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

14. Where does Rousseau believe speech arose from?
(a) The property phenomenon.
(b) Between mom and child.
(c) Out of necessity.
(d) Between dad and child.

15. What does Rousseau believe man's current state has more of in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Egotism.
(b) Denial over all.
(c) Luxury.
(d) More pain than pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what do men have that is difficult to control?

2. According to Rousseau, what is the outcome of man's labor?

3. What did the poor become, according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau mention men differ in as common character starts to develop within the human?

5. What makes use of human understanding, according to Rousseau?

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