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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 the first language of man according to Rousseau?
(a) Latin.
(b) Simple cry of nature.
(c) French.
(d) Babylonian.

2. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?
(a) Locke favors it.
(b) His royalty backers don't like the concept.
(c) He wants to contradict all the thinkers of his time.
(d) We do not yet know the nature of man.

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

4. What does Rousseau say happened to what fell apart in Chapter 1?
(a) It was resurrected.
(b) It was forgotten.
(c) It was cast aside.
(d) It was taken over by new philosophers.

5. What philosopher insists men always fight?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?

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

3. What has the power to disrupt society regularly?

4. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences have aided the suppression of?

5. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?

(see the answer key)

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