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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is needed by the law according to Rousseau?
(a) Judges.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Justice.

2. What does Rousseau say is the reason for the increase he saw in France?
(a) Art has become easily accessible.
(b) Men left their ignorance behind.
(c) The bourgeois extended their hold on the economy.
(d) Sciences made people want more.

3. When did Rousseau flee France?
(a) 1778.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1762.
(d) 1770.

4. Where does Rousseau think language came from?
(a) Interaction between clans.
(b) Necessity to pass knowledge.
(c) Necessity to warn others of danger.
(d) Interaction between parent and child.

5. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Rude, but precious.
(b) Natural, but rude.
(c) Rude.
(d) Natural.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do people see the weak according to Rousseau?

2. Why do men separate themselves according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau claim people can look at to discover the current nature of humanity?

4. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?

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

(see the answer key)

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