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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 does Rousseau argue enlightenment usually produces?
(a) Luxury.
(b) Better life for everyone.
(c) Better rulers.
(d) Laziness.

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

3. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Rude, but precious.
(b) Rude.
(c) Natural.
(d) Natural, but rude.

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

5. When did Rousseau flee France?
(a) 1762.
(b) 1770.
(c) 1778.
(d) 1775.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of government does Rousseau say has no rationale and is against nature?

2. Why do men separate themselves according to Rousseau?

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

4. What does Rousseau say is the reason for the increase he saw in France?

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

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