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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 history according to Rousseau?
(a) Tyrants and war.
(b) Many libraries.
(c) Historians.
(d) Good philosophers.

2. How can what Rousseau say fell apart survive under?
(a) Religion.
(b) His guidance.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Law and government.

3. What collapses with riches according to Rousseau?
(a) Science.
(b) Art.
(c) Morality.
(d) Education.

4. How many natural principles does Rousseau say exist before reason?
(a) 8 principles.
(b) 3 principles.
(c) 2 principles.
(d) 4 principles.

5. What is rooted in passion according to Rousseau?
(a) War.
(b) Love.
(c) Art.
(d) Human understanding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the human owe many of their ideas to according to Rousseau?

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

3. Where does Rousseau think language came from?

4. What does Rousseau say of the human animal?

5. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?

(see the answer key)

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