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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 wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Morality.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Values.

2. What does Rousseau say men came to love?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Religion.
(c) Arts.
(d) The restriction imposed by arts and sciences.

3. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Paris.
(c) Nice.
(d) Lyon.

4. What is Rousseau concerned about in the treatment of the topic of Chapter 1?
(a) Being unfair means favoring the arts.
(b) The arguments for and against are the same.
(c) The difficulty of being fair.
(d) The difficulty of being accurate.

5. What does Rousseau say is the reason for the increase he saw in France?
(a) Art has become easily accessible.
(b) Sciences made people want more.
(c) The bourgeois extended their hold on the economy.
(d) Men left their ignorance behind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chapter 1 about?

2. What was the most popular form of government in Europe during Rousseau's time?

3. What fell apart according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?

5. What does Rousseau say that the men will soon require?

(see the answer key)

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