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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?
(a) Light.
(b) Luxury.
(c) Pleasures.
(d) Repentance.

2. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?
(a) A revolution.
(b) A period of art.
(c) The ability to forgive.
(d) A new period of desire.

3. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?
(a) Without greed and power.
(b) Money.
(c) Without tyrants or wars.
(d) Government.

4. Who does Rousseau thank at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) His parents.
(b) His children.
(c) His sovereign lords.
(d) His wife.

5. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?
(a) Secrecy is best.
(b) To keep their personal secrets.
(c) To have more land.
(d) To hide their wickedness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?

2. What do people seek that do not exist, according to Rousseau at the end of Chapter 2, "A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

3. What does Rousseau reflect on at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

4. What good definition is hard to find, according to Rousseau?

5. The arts and sciences have helped human beings to repress what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how private persons have become slaves, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two".

2. Where does Rousseau believe many civilizations believe science arose from according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

3. In "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" what happens as a result of luxury?

4. How does Rousseau feel speech and grammar became established?

5. How should people with great talent behave, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

6. Describe how Rousseau feels society can become despotic.

7. Describe the two types of inequality Rousseau sees in humans according to "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One".

8. How does Rousseau feel about his fellow citizens according to "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

9. Explain what "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II" suggests cheapens virtue.

10. Describe the type of land Rousseau states he prefers to live in in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface".

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