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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of government does Rousseau say has no rationale and is against nature?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Republic.
(d) Hereditary monarchy.

2. What is the First Discourse about according to the Introduction?
(a) Popular enlightenment corrupts morals.
(b) An attack on Locke.
(c) Monarchy is a good government.
(d) Frederick the Great's accomplishments.

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

4. What was the most popular form of government in Europe during Rousseau's time?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Enlightened Despotism.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Capitalism.

5. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?
(a) Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Saint Augustine.
(c) Saint John of the Cross
(d) Saint Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?

2. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?

3. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to reward people based on?

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

5. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?

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