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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. 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) Immutable.
(c) Crumbling.
(d) Paradoxical.

2. Who should the law rule in Rousseau's perfect city?
(a) Everyone, but him.
(b) Only the poor.
(c) All.
(d) Only the rich.

3. How does Rousseau qualify the time doing nothing as?
(a) Time to reflect.
(b) Wasted.
(c) Wicked.
(d) Rest.

4. What does laziness do to men according to Rousseau?
(a) Makes them philosophers.
(b) Turn them into artists.
(c) Makes them into thieves.
(d) Regress them to the state of nature.

5. What are the growing illegalities based on according to Rousseau?
(a) Talents of men.
(b) The social political make-up of the time.
(c) Birth.
(d) Country of origin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do people accept in Rousseau's perfect city?

2. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?

3. What question does Rousseau try to answer about society?

4. What does Rousseau want his rulers to consider?

5. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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