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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) Nature.
(b) Weather.
(c) Government.
(d) Society.

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

3. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?
(a) Their irrational emotions.
(b) Their natural emotions.
(c) Their heated emotions.
(d) Their overall emotions.

4. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?
(a) Results of inequality.
(b) Detriment.
(c) The outcome of equality.
(d) Political equality.

5. Where does Rousseau believe speech arose from?
(a) The property phenomenon.
(b) Between dad and child.
(c) Between mom and child.
(d) Out of necessity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does society subsist according to Rousseau?

2. According to Rousseau, what is the savage man of nature focused on?

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

4. What was man's second feeling, according to Rousseau?

5. What does Rousseau compare in his illustration in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

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