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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 at the end of Chapter 1 might contradict virtue?
(a) Religion.
(b) Education.
(c) Sciences.
(d) Ignorance.

2. When did Rousseau flee France?
(a) 1770.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1762.
(d) 1778.

3. How can what Rousseau say fell apart survive under?
(a) Law and government.
(b) Religion.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) His guidance.

4. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?
(a) The potential for modernity to annihilate itself.
(b) The potential for the kings of Europe to crush any philosophical movement.
(c) The potential for modernity to revert to savagery.
(d) The potential for democracy to fail.

5. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?
(a) Blindly following the philosophers.
(b) Bad education
(c) Moral behavior.
(d) Studying art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pursuit of art and science not teach citizens?

2. What does Rousseau argue enlightenment usually produces?

3. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?

4. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?

5. What does Rousseau argue about the the society in which he was living in the First Discourse?

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