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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 does Rousseau say the size of the state should be in order to propose laws freely?

2. What can only be brought about by ignorance given its results according to Rousseau?

3. What is the main task of Rousseau's, "The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?

4. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?

5. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rousseau respond to the lack of direct evidence about man's nature state?

2. According to Rousseau in "Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy" how do Political Societies operate?

3. Describe how Rousseau feels society can become despotic.

4. Describe what natural law is according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface".

5. How does Rousseau feel about his fellow citizens according to "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?

6. Describe how the arts and sciences have helped to repress our wickedness, according to Rousseau.

7. What does Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II" think an artist's greatest compensation is?

8. What does Jean-Jacques Rousseau's earliest discourse discuss?

9. Explain how private persons have become slaves, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two".

10. What does Rousseau feel humans are called to, according "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and describe how Rousseau viewed property rights in relation to humanity and the way humans interacted overall.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the overall intention for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writing "A Discourse on Inequality" and what he desired to accomplish from this work.

Essay Topic 3

Describe and explain how morality's corruption does or does not destroy taste, according to Rousseau.

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