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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 does inequality of wealth and condition produce?
(a) Bad Laws.
(b) Prejudices.
(c) War.
(d) An economic drift.

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

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

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

5. What does natural sentiment lead to according to Rousseau?
(a) Family.
(b) Envy.
(c) War.
(d) Respecting the law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What follows the spread of knowledge according to the First Discourse?

2. What is, in science, more likely to result from speculation than truth?

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

4. What does not arise when men become dependent on one another?

5. What type of government is Rousseau concerned about in Chapter 3?

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