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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 say artists rarely are?
(a) Good.
(b) Smart.
(c) Patriots or good men.
(d) Successful.

2. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) Arts.
(b) Riches, vice and oppression.
(c) The riches of the bourgeois.
(d) The power of the noblemen.

3. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?
(a) Good for society.
(b) Captivating.
(c) A way to better ourselves.
(d) Dangerous.

4. What does Rousseau say men came to love?
(a) Arts.
(b) The restriction imposed by arts and sciences.
(c) Sciences.
(d) Religion.

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 on the brink of chaos.
(d) It is as perfect as it can be.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do men separate themselves according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau say became of arts and sciences?

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

4. What should academies organize society around?

5. What does laziness do to men according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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