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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 did the "philosophes" think would happen to a society where false beliefs wither?
(a) Women would come to power.
(b) It would get better.
(c) It would collapse.
(d) It would rule the world.

2. What does Rousseau think artistic progress produces?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Riches.

3. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?
(a) The potential for modernity to annihilate itself.
(b) The potential for democracy to fail.
(c) The potential for the kings of Europe to crush any philosophical movement.
(d) The potential for modernity to revert to savagery.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say is hidden in society?

2. What does Rousseau wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?

3. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?

4. What does the pursuit of art and science not teach citizens?

5. What follows the spread of knowledge according to the First Discourse?

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