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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was man's first feeling, according to Rousseau?
(a) His existense.
(b) Crying.
(c) Self preservation.
(d) His breath.

2. How does Rousseau see the state of man in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Happy and natural.
(b) Unnatural.
(c) Unhealthy.
(d) Chaotic.

3. What does Rousseau feel happens to the state as a result of luxury development?
(a) It grows poor.
(b) The quality of life increases.
(c) It grows greedy.
(d) It grows rich, but sometimes depopulates themselves.

4. According to Rousseau, what do men have that is difficult to control?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Anger.
(c) Desire.
(d) Instincts.

5. What does Rousseau believe divides a repressed man?
(a) Amore-propre and primitive emotions.
(b) Carnal and natural desire.
(c) Reflex and emotions.
(d) Instinct and reflex.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe does not preserve one's liberty?

2. What does Rousseau want to know about the "strong"?

3. What is human understanding rooted in, according to Rousseau?

4. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?

5. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?

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