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

2. What should be equal if talents are equal according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Riches.
(c) Property.
(d) Art.

3. What philosopher insists men always fight?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Socrates.

4. What does Rousseau say the increase of knowledge helps generate?
(a) Good behavior.
(b) Time for vice.
(c) Worthy philosophers.
(d) Science.

5. Where does Rousseau think language came from?
(a) Necessity to warn others of danger.
(b) Interaction between parent and child.
(c) Interaction between clans.
(d) Necessity to pass knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?

2. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?

3. What is man's second feeling according to Rousseau?

4. Why do men separate themselves according to Rousseau?

5. Who tells the human to do good for himself and as little evil as he can to others?

(see the answer key)

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