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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?
(a) The rational basis of monarchy.
(b) The rational basis of natural law and religion.
(c) Rousseau's relation with Frederick the Great.
(d) People obsessed by material possession.

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

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

4. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?
(a) Dangerous.
(b) Captivating.
(c) Good for society.
(d) A way to better ourselves.

5. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?
(a) Why philosophers are great.
(b) Inequality between men and women.
(c) Nature of man.
(d) The oppression of the masses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?

2. What displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?

3. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?

4. When did Rousseau flee France?

5. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?

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