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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 Chapter 1 about?
(a) The best age to have children working.
(b) Relation between rulers and citizens.
(c) Democracy versus republic.
(d) Moral effects of the arts and sciences.

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

3. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) Arts.
(b) The riches of the bourgeois.
(c) Riches, vice and oppression.
(d) The power of the noblemen.

4. What is not superior to the present day?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Art.
(c) Science.
(d) Nature of man.

5. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?
(a) Blindly following the philosophers.
(b) Moral behavior.
(c) Studying art.
(d) Bad education

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say sciences does not improve?

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

3. How can what Rousseau say fell apart survive under?

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

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

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