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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 displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?
(a) Despotism and freedom.
(b) Monarchy and prisons.
(c) Sciences and arts.
(d) Government and philosophy.

2. What example does Rousseau use to demonstrate the link between free time and vanity?
(a) Roman emperors.
(b) Cyprian king.
(c) The Frank empire.
(d) Switzerland.

3. What is, in science, more likely to result from speculation than truth?
(a) Receiving research funding.
(b) Mistakes.
(c) A workable product.
(d) Error.

4. What are the growing illegalities based on according to Rousseau?
(a) The social political make-up of the time.
(b) Birth.
(c) Talents of men.
(d) Country of origin.

5. What does Rousseau say the increase of knowledge helps generate?
(a) Time for vice.
(b) Science.
(c) Good behavior.
(d) Worthy philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences restrict?

4. What is Rousseau concerned about in the treatment of the topic of Chapter 1?

5. How does Rousseau qualify the time doing nothing as?

(see the answer key)

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