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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. How does Rousseau qualify the relationship between the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences and their influence on society?
(a) Immutable.
(b) A thing of the past.
(c) Paradoxical.
(d) Crumbling.

2. How does Rousseau say science produces war?
(a) Because it makes nations jealous of each other.
(b) Because it leads to new weapons.
(c) Because it leads to better men.
(d) Because it leads to better economy.

3. What does Rousseau say would have been prevented if someone called on the lies of the man who invented property rights?
(a) Trials.
(b) Many calamities.
(c) Banks.
(d) Lawyer.

4. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?
(a) It's size.
(b) It's reliance on science.
(c) It's thirst for knowledge?
(d) It's desire for art.

5. What follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?
(a) The industrial revolution.
(b) Bread.
(c) Machinery.
(d) Slavery and misery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say increased in France?

2. What does Rousseau suppose concerning men at the start of Chapter 4?

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

4. What does the savage man constantly focuses on?

5. What does Rousseau conclude social and political inequality is not?

(see the answer key)

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