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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say men can do in the present?
(a) Appreciate arts.
(b) Understand sciences.
(c) Read Rousseau's book.
(d) Deceive.

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

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

4. What are the two laws of nature and natural right according to Rousseau?
(a) Physical nature and irrational man.
(b) Physical nature and rational man.
(c) Rational man and irrational nature.
(d) Physical nature and the king is always right.

5. When did Rousseau flee France?
(a) 1770.
(b) 1762.
(c) 1778.
(d) 1775.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say became of arts and sciences?

2. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?

3. What does Rousseau say the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences do?

4. What does Rousseau argue enlightenment usually produces?

5. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?

(see the answer key)

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