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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 say of the process that makes men both wicked and sociable?
(a) It could have occurred in many ways.
(b) It can be reverted.
(c) It occurs every day.
(d) It is recent.

2. What has the power to disrupt society regularly?
(a) The law.
(b) Love.
(c) War.
(d) A revolution.

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

4. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Patience.
(b) Knowledge of what is beautiful.
(c) Paintings.
(d) Morality.

5. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?
(a) It obscures it.
(b) It destroys it.
(c) It make it better.
(d) It nurtures it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of government does Rousseau say has no rationale and is against nature?

2. What does Rousseau argue generates geometry?

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

4. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?

5. What does Rousseau have for the republic of his birth?

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