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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. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Luxury.
(d) Wealth.

2. 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) Lazy.
(b) Needed.
(c) Evil.
(d) Good.

3. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
(a) Greed.
(b) Luxury and the corruption of taste.
(c) Desire and the corruption of soul.
(d) Pride and corruption of intelligence.

4. How did older centuries think of natural law, according to Rousseau?
(a) Beyond art.
(b) Beyond humanity.
(c) Beyond ethics.
(d) Beyond science.

5. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?
(a) Strengthen them.
(b) Improve them.
(c) Worsen them.
(d) Affect them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What must Rousseau first figure out before writing "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?

3. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?

4. 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?

5. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Rousseau feels about luxury?

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

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

4. 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?

5. How did the arts and sciences directly effect France, according to Rousseau?

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

7. Describe how Rousseau feels society can become despotic.

8. According to Rousseau in "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two" describe how the rich man becomes rich.

9. Discuss the public economy and its authority as described in "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy".

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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