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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 does Rousseau say men are coming to?
(a) Rediscover the old ways.
(b) A new sort of reason.
(c) A new sort of intelligence
(d) New reasons to make war.

2. What does Rousseau say is the reason for the increase he saw in France?
(a) The bourgeois extended their hold on the economy.
(b) Men left their ignorance behind.
(c) Sciences made people want more.
(d) Art has become easily accessible.

3. What follows the spread of knowledge according to the First Discourse?
(a) Riches.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Corruption.

4. What does Rousseau think artistic progress produces?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Riches.
(d) Corruption.

5. What does Rousseau say sciences does not improve?
(a) Riches.
(b) Morals.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rousseau say science produces war?

2. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?

3. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?

4. How does Rousseau qualify the time doing nothing as?

5. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?

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