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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 displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?
(a) Monarchy and prisons.
(b) Sciences and arts.
(c) Despotism and freedom.
(d) Government and philosophy.

2. What does the human owe many of their ideas to according to Rousseau?
(a) Chance.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Speech.
(d) Art.

3. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?
(a) Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(b) Saint John of the Cross
(c) Saint Augustine.
(d) Saint Thomas.

4. What does Rousseau say that the men will soon require?
(a) Patience.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Arts.

5. What does Rousseau say at the end of Chapter 1 might contradict virtue?
(a) Education.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example does Rousseau use to demonstrate the link between free time and vanity?

2. What does Rousseau say matters little in the pursuit of virtue?

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

4. What was the most popular form of government in Europe during Rousseau's time?

5. How can what Rousseau say fell apart survive under?

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