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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) Pleasures.
(b) Repentance.
(c) Luxury.
(d) Light.
2. What type of government worries Rousseau?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Democratic.
(c) Republican.
(d) Green.
3. What type of state is Rousseau interested in having?
(a) One that is interested by conquest.
(b) One that is uninterested by conquest.
(c) One that is poor.
(d) One that is powerful.
4. What does Rousseau believe ensures wicked doctrines corrupting life forever?
(a) History.
(b) War.
(c) Art and artists.
(d) The printing press.
5. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?
(a) They discovered that they were better off in their ignorance.
(b) The needed the arts and sciences.
(c) The arts and sciences were a detrimental luxury.
(d) The arts and sciences were only a luxury.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
2. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
3. What do few artists defend according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
4. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?
5. 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"?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rousseau respond to the lack of direct evidence about man's nature state?
2. Discuss the public economy and its authority as described in "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy".
3. Describe how Rousseau feels about luxury?
4. Describe how Rousseau views the impact the size of a society has on determining an individual's motives.
5. What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau's earliest discourse discuss?
6. According to Rousseau, how does science negatively affect the human population?
7. How does Rousseau feel everyone could reach happiness according to "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy"?
8. How does Rousseau feel about his fellow citizens according to "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
9. According to Rousseau in "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two" describe how the rich man becomes rich.
10. Discuss what the results of growth of words had on society, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One".
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