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

2. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?
(a) He wants to contradict all the thinkers of his time.
(b) Locke favors it.
(c) His royalty backers don't like the concept.
(d) We do not yet know the nature of man.

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

4. What does Rousseau argue about the the society in which he was living in the First Discourse?
(a) It has high moral standards.
(b) It is as perfect as it can be.
(c) It is on the brink of chaos.
(d) It is morally depraved.

5. What follows the spread of knowledge according to the First Discourse?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Chaos.
(c) Riches.
(d) Corruption.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say preceded what men are coming to?

2. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?

3. What does Rousseau say men are coming to?

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

5. What question does Rousseau try to answer about society?

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