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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?
(a) Natural right.
(b) Human law.
(c) Human rights.
(d) Natural law.

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

3. How many types of inequality does Rousseau see among humans in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

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

8. What does Rousseau believe helped man use nature?
(a) Free will.
(b) Instinct.
(c) Force.
(d) Natural reason.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. How does Rousseau think the gods will react to people forming a more perfect union?
(a) They will teach them.
(b) They will smile on them.
(c) They will bless them.
(d) They will curse them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau believe does not preserve one's liberty?

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

4. What is human understanding rooted in, according to Rousseau?

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

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