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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. How does Rousseau qualify the time doing nothing as?
(a) Wasted.
(b) Rest.
(c) Time to reflect.
(d) Wicked.

2. What follows the spread of knowledge according to the First Discourse?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Riches.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Chaos.

3. What does laziness do to men according to Rousseau?
(a) Makes them philosophers.
(b) Makes them into thieves.
(c) Turn them into artists.
(d) Regress them to the state of nature.

4. What civilizations does Rousseau use to demonstrate his point on morality?
(a) French and British.
(b) Romans and Greeks.
(c) Germans and Prussians.
(d) Russians and Japanese.

5. What is Rousseau concerned about in the treatment of the topic of Chapter 1?
(a) The difficulty of being fair.
(b) The arguments for and against are the same.
(c) Being unfair means favoring the arts.
(d) The difficulty of being accurate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?

2. What does Rousseau say is hidden in society?

3. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?

4. What does Rousseau argue generates physics?

5. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?

(see the answer key)

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