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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would make property rights equal?
(a) New leadership.
(b) If human talents were equal.
(c) New government.
(d) War.

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

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

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

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) Animals.
(c) Money.
(d) Disease.

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

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

8. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?
(a) Results of inequality.
(b) Political equality.
(c) The outcome of equality.
(d) Detriment.

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

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

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

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

13. What is human understanding rooted in, according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Passions.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Nothing.

14. According to Rousseau, who destroyed human compassion?
(a) Modern depravity.
(b) Power.
(c) Desire.
(d) Greed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What cannot be uncovered about nature's inequality, according to Rousseau?

2. Where does Rousseau question language evolved from?

3. What does Rousseau believe government did NOT evolve from?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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