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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened as words grew in number?

2. What summarizes the end of "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

3. What does Rousseau believe helped man use nature?

4. What was the result of new tools being invented, according to Rousseau?

5. According to Rousseau, what do men have that is difficult to control?

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

Discuss what an artist's compensation is and how this compensation leads to the artist's dissolution of virtue, according to Rousseau's belief.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the motif that knowledge is a tragedy in "A Discourse on Inequality" and why Rousseau reasons so.

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