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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author states that slavery is established and perpetuated by which of the following?
(a) Force.
(b) A majority.
(c) Taxes.
(d) War.

2. The author states that a social contract in a bad government does which of the following?
(a) Keeps those in power miserable.
(b) Keeps the middle-class miserable.
(c) Keeps everyone miserable.
(d) Keeps the poor miserable.

3. The author believes that the people who deliberate and form the general will do not always do so from a place that houses which of the following?
(a) Moral decency.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Righteousness.
(d) Liberty.

4. According to the author, from which of the following does justice flow?
(a) God.
(b) Nature.
(c) The general will.
(d) The law.

5. When the author writes of a sovereign within the social contract, he refers to which of the following?
(a) The person in leadership of the group.
(b) The outward will of the group.
(c) The single ruler.
(d) The collective authority.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the author suggest to be the best time for a state to be established?

2. If the natural circumstances are not taken into account by the legislator, what type of status will the state be in?

3. The author believes that the government does not have the right to lay greater responsibility on one person than another because the government then becomes which of the following?

4. The author believes he is a citizen of which of the following?

5. The author believes that a human's most basic instinct is the will to do which of the following?

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