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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 is not superior to the present day?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Science.
(c) Art.
(d) Nature of man.

2. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?
(a) Changes in the Monarchy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The Enlightenment.

3. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?
(a) Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Saint Thomas.
(c) Saint Augustine.
(d) Saint John of the Cross

4. What does Rousseau say men can hide from open discernment?
(a) Their incompetence.
(b) Their motives.
(c) Their love of God.
(d) Science.

5. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?
(a) Moral behavior.
(b) Blindly following the philosophers.
(c) Studying art.
(d) Bad education

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the "philosophes" think would happen to a society where false beliefs wither?

2. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to recognize?

3. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?

4. When did Rousseau flee France?

5. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?

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