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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?
(a) Speech.
(b) The nature.
(c) God.
(d) Their ancestors.

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

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

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

10. What did men dwell on according to Rousseau in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?
(a) Wants.
(b) Desire.
(c) Love.
(d) Needs.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?

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

3. What does Rousseau want to know about the "strong"?

4. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?

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

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