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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?

3. What does Rousseau say men can hide from open discernment?

4. How does the Introduction classify both Hobbes and Locke?

5. What does Rousseau argue about the the society in which he was living in the First Discourse?

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