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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fell apart according to Rousseau?
(a) The French monarchy.
(b) Totalitarian government.
(c) The upperclass way of life.
(d) Arts and sciences.

2. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences restrict?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Ability to think.

3. What does Rousseau say of the needs and goals of the society compared to that of the government?
(a) They are always the same.
(b) The needs of the government trump the ones of the people.
(c) The people should require that his needs be taken into account.
(d) They might not be the same.

4. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?
(a) The potential for the kings of Europe to crush any philosophical movement.
(b) The potential for modernity to annihilate itself.
(c) The potential for democracy to fail.
(d) The potential for modernity to revert to savagery.

5. How does Rousseau qualify the relationship between the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences and their influence on society?
(a) A thing of the past.
(b) Crumbling.
(c) Immutable.
(d) Paradoxical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau claim people can look at to discover the current nature of humanity?

2. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?

3. How many natural principles does Rousseau say exist before reason?

4. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?

5. How do people see the weak according to Rousseau?

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