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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) The power of the noblemen.
(b) Arts.
(c) The riches of the bourgeois.
(d) Riches, vice and oppression.

2. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?
(a) Nice.
(b) Paris.
(c) Lyon.
(d) Geneva.

3. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?
(a) France.
(b) Russia.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Germany.

4. When did Rousseau die?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1804.

5. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to reward people based on?
(a) Appearance.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Birth.
(d) Fortune.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who attacked art and science according to Rousseau?

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

3. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences have aided the suppression of?

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

5. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?

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