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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. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?
(a) His royalty backers don't like the concept.
(b) He wants to contradict all the thinkers of his time.
(c) We do not yet know the nature of man.
(d) Locke favors it.

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

4. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?
(a) Enlightened despotism.
(b) Dark sun.
(c) Honest politicians.
(d) Great kings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rousseau say science produces war?

2. What reflects in the science it helped produce?

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

4. What does Rousseau say men can hide from open discernment?

5. When did Rousseau die?

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