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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau think artistic progress produces?
(a) Riches.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Happiness.

2. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?
(a) Nature of man.
(b) Why philosophers are great.
(c) The oppression of the masses.
(d) Inequality between men and women.

3. What does the pursuit of art and science not teach citizens?
(a) To grow their own food.
(b) To take care of themselves.
(c) To be virtuous.
(d) To question authority.

4. What does luxury generate according to Rousseau?
(a) Good men.
(b) Travel.
(c) Free time.
(d) Art.

5. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?
(a) Honest politicians.
(b) Enlightened despotism.
(c) Great kings.
(d) Dark sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What collapses with riches according to Rousseau?

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

3. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?

4. What does Rousseau say men can do in the present?

5. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?

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