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

2. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?
(a) We do not yet know the nature of man.
(b) He wants to contradict all the thinkers of his time.
(c) Locke favors it.
(d) His royalty backers don't like the concept.

3. What does Rousseau say became of arts and sciences?
(a) Easy to access.
(b) Open.
(c) A ghetto for rich people.
(d) Dictatorial.

4. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Patience.
(b) Knowledge of what is beautiful.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Morality.

5. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to submit to?
(a) His wisdom.
(b) France.
(c) The law.
(d) Their ideals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?

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

3. What is Rousseau using the dedication for?

4. What does Rousseau say the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences do?

5. What fell apart according to Rousseau?

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