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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 want his countrymen to retain?
(a) Their banks.
(b) Their democracy.
(c) Their right to ignore the law.
(d) Their art.

2. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences have aided the suppression of?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Evil.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Poverty.

3. What does Rousseau argue generates physics?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Idleness.
(c) Revenge.
(d) Greed.

4. What is Rousseau concerned about in the treatment of the topic of Chapter 1?
(a) Being unfair means favoring the arts.
(b) The difficulty of being accurate.
(c) The difficulty of being fair.
(d) The arguments for and against are the same.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rousseau using the dedication for?

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

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

4. Why does Rousseau say humanity remains secure?

5. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?

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