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

2. What did the man who invented property rights found according to Rousseau in Chapter 5?
(a) Law school.
(b) Banks.
(c) Society.
(d) Tribunals.

3. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?
(a) The loss of his sister.
(b) The loss of his influence.
(c) The loss of freedom of his countrymen.
(d) The loss of his rights.

4. What should academies organize society around?
(a) What knowledge different class should have.
(b) Riches.
(c) Clans.
(d) Family heritage.

5. What does laziness do to men according to Rousseau?
(a) Turn them into artists.
(b) Regress them to the state of nature.
(c) Makes them philosophers.
(d) Makes them into thieves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau argue generates ethics?

2. What does natural sentiment lead to according to Rousseau?

3. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?

4. What does the human owe many of their ideas to according to Rousseau?

5. How can what Rousseau say fell apart survive under?

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