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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of land does Rousseau prefer to live in?
2. What does Rousseau argue that men with talent should do?
3. What does the dissolution of morality follow according to Rousseau?
4. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
5. Who is Rousseau saddened by in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix" what illustration does Rousseau give to compare the modern man to the savage?
2. Discuss Rousseau's opinion on taxation.
3. How should people with great talent behave, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
4. Discuss what the results of growth of words had on society, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One".
5. According to Rousseau, how does science negatively affect the human population?
6. How does Rousseau feel speech and grammar became established?
7. How did the arts and sciences directly effect France, according to Rousseau?
8. How does Rousseau respond to the lack of direct evidence about man's nature state?
9. According to Rousseau in "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two" describe how the rich man becomes rich.
10. In "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two" what do men slowly realize they differ in and how is that important?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss the motif that knowledge is a tragedy in "A Discourse on Inequality" and why Rousseau reasons so.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Rousseau's definition of the savage man to the modern man.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideal and preferred type of government to the one that actually exists and how his ideas are ambitious.
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