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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 wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Morality.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Values.

2. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?
(a) The rational basis of monarchy.
(b) Rousseau's relation with Frederick the Great.
(c) People obsessed by material possession.
(d) The rational basis of natural law and religion.

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

4. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?
(a) It nurtures it.
(b) It destroys it.
(c) It obscures it.
(d) It make it better.

5. According to Rousseau, what is the first step to uncover the nature of inequality?
(a) Studying art.
(b) Discovering man's true nature.
(c) Learning science.
(d) Making money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacked art and science according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to recognize?

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

4. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?

5. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?

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