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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the final stage of maturation of inequality, according to "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Ego.
(c) Despotism.
(d) Talent.

2. What can society no longer exist on after luxury is introduced, according to Rousseau?
(a) Peaceful existence.
(b) Plants and acorns.
(c) Private income.
(d) Crops.

3. What does philosophy do?
(a) Isolates the human.
(b) Introverts the human.
(c) Broadens the human.
(d) Enlightens the human.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Rousseau think about the man who invented property rights?

4. What makes use of human understanding, according to Rousseau?

5. What leads to sex for man, according to Rousseau?

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