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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. How does Rousseau say science produces war?
(a) Because it leads to better economy.
(b) Because it makes nations jealous of each other.
(c) Because it leads to better men.
(d) Because it leads to new weapons.

2. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?
(a) It make it better.
(b) It obscures it.
(c) It nurtures it.
(d) It destroys it.

3. What does natural sentiment lead to according to Rousseau?
(a) War.
(b) Family.
(c) Respecting the law.
(d) Envy.

4. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain?
(a) Their banks.
(b) Their right to ignore the law.
(c) Their democracy.
(d) Their art.

5. What is man's second feeling according to Rousseau?
(a) Envy.
(b) Love.
(c) Self-preservation.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does luxury generate according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau say of the process that makes men both wicked and sociable?

3. How does the Introduction classify both Hobbes and Locke?

4. What does Rousseau say about relating the different types of inequality?

5. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?

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