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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau believe does not preserve one's liberty?
(a) Alienation of one's liberty.
(b) Ignoring one's liberty.
(c) Laughing at one's liberty.
(d) Using one's liberty.

2. 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) Modern time to prehistoric time.
(c) The modern woman to the savage man.
(d) Governmental rule and religious rule.

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

4. What does Rousseau think about the man who invented property rights?
(a) He doesn't say anything about it.
(b) He was smart.
(c) He was rude.
(d) He pulled one over on his fellows.

5. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?
(a) Reproduction.
(b) Sensation.
(c) Family.
(d) Survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many types of inequality does Rousseau see among humans in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

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

3. What does Rousseau think humans are called to in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

4. How does Rousseau see the state of man in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

5. What does philosophy do?

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