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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 is best represented by the "Philosophes"?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Changes in the Monarchy.
(d) The Enlightenment.

2. What is needed by history according to Rousseau?
(a) Many libraries.
(b) Historians.
(c) Good philosophers.
(d) Tyrants and war.

3. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Rude, but precious.
(b) Natural, but rude.
(c) Rude.
(d) Natural.

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

5. What would make the state decay according to Rousseau?
(a) Lack of trust.
(b) Noblemen.
(c) Art.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say at the end of Chapter 1 might contradict virtue?

2. When did Rousseau die?

3. What does Rousseau argue generates physics?

4. What does Rousseau think artistic progress produces?

5. What are the two laws of nature and natural right according to Rousseau?

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