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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. What does Rousseau say arts require?
(a) Talent.
(b) Power.
(c) Luxury.
(d) Passion.
2. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?
(a) A new period of desire.
(b) A revolution.
(c) A period of art.
(d) The ability to forgive.
3. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(b) Greed.
(c) Pride and corruption of intelligence.
(d) Luxury and the corruption of taste.
4. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?
(a) Giving up power.
(b) Incomplete passion.
(c) Complete idleness.
(d) Complete desire.
5. What must Rousseau first figure out before writing "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?
(a) History of greed.
(b) The nature of civilization.
(c) History of humans.
(d) The nature of humans.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?
2. According to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" how were humans more secure in earlier societies?
3. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
4. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?
5. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Rousseau feels about property rights according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two".
2. In "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" what illustration does Rousseau give to compare the modern man to the savage?
3. According to Rousseau, how does science negatively affect the human population?
4. In "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" what happens as a result of luxury?
5. What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau's earliest discourse discuss?
6. What is the general will composed of, according to "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy"?
7. Explain why Rousseau feels ignorance has been praised.
8. Discuss the public economy and its authority as described in "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy".
9. How does economic inequality evolve according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?
10. Explain what Rousseau suggests about mankind's living quarters in their earliest stage.
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