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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does nature tell humans?
(a) Be kind.
(b) Do good for himself.
(c) Preserve his strength.
(d) Preserve the land.

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

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

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

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

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

8. What summarizes the end of "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?
(a) Finding power.
(b) Foregoing features of primitive man.
(c) How power came into existence.
(d) Calling to the gods for help.

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

10. What does amore-propre preserve?
(a) The desire.
(b) The nature.
(c) The species.
(d) The greed.

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Rousseau think the gods will react to people forming a more perfect union?

5. What does Rousseau compare in his illustration in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

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