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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 produces economic inequality according to Rousseau?
(a) Industrialists.
(b) Men.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Natural inequality.

2. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to reward people based on?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Birth.
(c) Appearance.
(d) Fortune.

3. What does the pursuit of art and science not teach citizens?
(a) To grow their own food.
(b) To be virtuous.
(c) To question authority.
(d) To take care of themselves.

4. What does Rousseau say of the human animal?
(a) It is flawed.
(b) It is an ingenious machine.
(c) It is a precise clock.
(d) It is outdated.

5. What does Rousseau argue generates geometry?
(a) Nightmares.
(b) Greed.
(c) Reasoning.
(d) Sympathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?

2. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?

3. What can magistrates easily usurp according to Rousseau?

4. What is needed by arts according to Rousseau?

5. How does Rousseau qualify the time doing nothing as?

(see the answer key)

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