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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 do differing forms of government result from according to Rousseau?
(a) Different languages.
(b) Different tyrants.
(c) Different amount of wealth.
(d) Different level of inequality.

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 destroys it.
(d) It nurtures it.

3. What does Rousseau say that the men will soon require?
(a) Patience.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Arts.

4. What does Rousseau claim people can look at to discover the current nature of humanity?
(a) Contemporary historical events.
(b) The political system of Switzerland.
(c) Books.
(d) His writings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the rich become when the new accumulation of riches is possible according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau suppose concerning men at the start of Chapter 4?

3. Who does Rousseau say is wrong to think that because men have no natural sense of good that they must be wicked?

4. How does Rousseau qualify the time doing nothing as?

5. Who is Chapter 3 dedicated to?

(see the answer key)

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