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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. How is wasting time viewed by society today, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Needed.
(d) Good.

2. 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"?
(a) Their kindness.
(b) Their infatuation.
(c) Their wickedness.
(d) Their narcissism.

3. According to Rousseau, why does science lead to war?
(a) It enables the desire of revenge.
(b) It produces better weapons.
(c) It allows plan of attacks.
(d) It gives knowledge.

4. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?
(a) The same beliefs.
(b) Opposing interests,
(c) The game goals.
(d) Opposing goals.

5. What does Rousseau want everyone to recognize in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The power of greed.
(b) The authority of the state.
(c) The authority of art.
(d) The wealth of the land.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What does Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?

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

4. What does Rousseau see as possibly contradictory in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

5. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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"?

2. Explain how Rousseau feels about art's relationship to children.

3. According to Rousseau, how is it a paradox that the government makes man both free and subjects?

4. What does Rousseau argue government came from?

5. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how does slavery make man civilized?

6. Discuss what "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two" says about despotism role in inequality.

7. What does Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II" think an artist's greatest compensation is?

8. According to Rousseau in "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy" how do Political Societies operate?

9. What are the effects of idleness on humanity, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

10. In "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" what illustration does Rousseau give to compare the modern man to the savage?

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