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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?
(a) Dark sun.
(b) Honest politicians.
(c) Great kings.
(d) Enlightened despotism.

2. What does Rousseau say at the end of Chapter 1 might contradict virtue?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Education.
(c) Religion.
(d) Ignorance.

3. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?
(a) The potential for the kings of Europe to crush any philosophical movement.
(b) The potential for democracy to fail.
(c) The potential for modernity to revert to savagery.
(d) The potential for modernity to annihilate itself.

4. What does luxury generate according to Rousseau?
(a) Good men.
(b) Travel.
(c) Art.
(d) Free time.

5. What does Rousseau say happened to what fell apart in Chapter 1?
(a) It was taken over by new philosophers.
(b) It was resurrected.
(c) It was cast aside.
(d) It was forgotten.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sections does the Introduction say the Second Discourse has?

2. What is needed by the law according to Rousseau?

3. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?

4. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences have aided the suppression of?

5. When did Rousseau die?

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