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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?
(a) Nature of man.
(b) Inequality between men and women.
(c) The oppression of the masses.
(d) Why philosophers are great.

2. 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.

3. What did the man who invented property rights found according to Rousseau in Chapter 5?
(a) Society.
(b) Banks.
(c) Tribunals.
(d) Law school.

4. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Changes in the Monarchy.
(d) The Enlightenment.

5. What does Rousseau say men dwell on?
(a) Wants.
(b) Love.
(c) Power.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?

3. What does the savage man constantly focuses on?

4. What does Rousseau argue generates physics?

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

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