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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Rousseau, what do men have that is difficult to control?
(a) Anger.
(b) Desire.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Instincts.

5. What does Rousseau believe divides a repressed man?
(a) Carnal and natural desire.
(b) Instinct and reflex.
(c) Reflex and emotions.
(d) Amore-propre and primitive emotions.

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

7. What was the result of new tools being invented, according to Rousseau?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Violence and death.
(c) Men's interests began to coincide.
(d) Men's interests began to conflict.

8. 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) Old age.
(c) Disease.
(d) Animals.

9. What does Rousseau mention men differ in as common character starts to develop within the human?
(a) Beauty and wealth.
(b) Wealth and beauty.
(c) Beauty and talent.
(d) Wealth only.

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was man's second feeling, according to Rousseau?

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

4. According to Rousseau, what is the savage man of nature focused on?

5. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?

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