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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 the First Discourse about according to the Introduction?
(a) Monarchy is a good government.
(b) Popular enlightenment corrupts morals.
(c) An attack on Locke.
(d) Frederick the Great's accomplishments.

2. What does Rousseau say became of arts and sciences?
(a) A ghetto for rich people.
(b) Open.
(c) Easy to access.
(d) Dictatorial.

3. How does Rousseau qualify the relationship between the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences and their influence on society?
(a) Paradoxical.
(b) Crumbling.
(c) Immutable.
(d) A thing of the past.

4. What does Rousseau say the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences do?
(a) Make untalented people famous.
(b) Make people think.
(c) Make despotic governments bearable.
(d) Make people civilized.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau argue about the the society in which he was living in the First Discourse?

2. What does Rousseau say artists rarely are?

3. What does science prevent the production of according to Rousseau?

4. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?

5. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?

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