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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?
(a) Weather.
(b) Society.
(c) Nature.
(d) Government.

2. What does Rousseau say separates the sensation of the savage from simple knowledge?
(a) A bridge.
(b) An ocean.
(c) A gulf.
(d) A universe.

3. What does Rousseau compare in his illustration in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) The modern man to the savage man.
(b) The modern woman to the savage man.
(c) Governmental rule and religious rule.
(d) Modern time to prehistoric time.

4. According to Rousseau, who destroyed human compassion?
(a) Desire.
(b) Greed.
(c) Modern depravity.
(d) Power.

5. What would make property rights equal?
(a) If human talents were equal.
(b) New government.
(c) New leadership.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does nature tell humans?

2. How does Rousseau think the gods will react to people forming a more perfect union?

3. What does amore-propre preserve?

4. What is the final stage of maturation of inequality, according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?

5. When does Rousseau believe inequality came?

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