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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

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

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

8. What is the final stage of maturation of inequality, according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?
(a) Ego.
(b) Talent.
(c) Desire.
(d) Despotism.

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

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

11. What cannot be uncovered about nature's inequality, according to Rousseau?
(a) The source.
(b) The result.
(c) The reason.
(d) The detriment.

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

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

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

15. According to Rousseau, what is the outcome of man's labor?
(a) More resources.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Continual suffrage.
(d) More greed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe divides a repressed man?

2. What is at conflict in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" that concerns Rousseau?

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

4. What does amore-propre preserve?

5. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?

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