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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 does Rousseau have for the republic of his birth?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Money.
(c) High hopes.
(d) Little respect.

2. Why do men separate themselves according to Rousseau?
(a) To plot against others.
(b) To play.
(c) To hide their vice.
(d) To think good thoughts.

3. What does Rousseau say of the needs and goals of the society compared to that of the government?
(a) They might not be the same.
(b) They are always the same.
(c) The people should require that his needs be taken into account.
(d) The needs of the government trump the ones of the people.

4. What does Rousseau say men are coming to?
(a) New reasons to make war.
(b) A new sort of reason.
(c) Rediscover the old ways.
(d) A new sort of intelligence

5. What type of government does Rousseau say has no rationale and is against nature?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Republic.
(d) Hereditary monarchy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau argue generates ethics?

2. What is, in science, more likely to result from speculation than truth?

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

4. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?

5. What is man capable of doing according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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