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

2. Why does Rousseau say humanity remains secure?
(a) They are able to appreciate the arts.
(b) They are able to see each other's motives.
(c) They are able to understand the sciences.
(d) They are able to travel to other countries easily.

3. Who attacked art and science according to Rousseau?
(a) Hobbes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Aristotle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?

2. What does Rousseau say increased in France?

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

4. When did Rousseau die?

5. What did the "philosophes" think would happen to a society where false beliefs wither?

(see the answer key)

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