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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Rousseau die?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1804.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1778.

3. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to recognize?
(a) The greatness of their leaders.
(b) Talent.
(c) Their piety.
(d) Their own weakness.

4. What displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?
(a) Sciences and arts.
(b) Monarchy and prisons.
(c) Government and philosophy.
(d) Despotism and freedom.

5. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to reward people based on?
(a) Birth.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Appearance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is, in science, more likely to result from speculation than truth?

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

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

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

5. What are the two laws of nature and natural right according to Rousseau?

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