View a FREE sample

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. How would artists feel if they were to work amongst those who hate their work according to Rousseau?
(a) Wasted.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Overwhelmed.
(d) Happy.

2. What does Rousseau argue generates ethics?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Pride.
(d) Religion.

3. What does science prevent the production of according to Rousseau?
(a) Worldly goods.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Good men.
(d) Good leader.

4. How does Rousseau say science produces war?
(a) Because it makes nations jealous of each other.
(b) Because it leads to better men.
(c) Because it leads to better economy.
(d) Because it leads to new weapons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say the increase of knowledge helps generate?

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

3. What displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?

4. What are the growing illegalities based on according to Rousseau?

5. What is needed by history according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 238 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample