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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 is Chapter 1 about?
(a) Moral effects of the arts and sciences.
(b) Relation between rulers and citizens.
(c) Democracy versus republic.
(d) The best age to have children working.

2. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?
(a) Locke favors it.
(b) His royalty backers don't like the concept.
(c) We do not yet know the nature of man.
(d) He wants to contradict all the thinkers of his time.

3. How many sections does the Introduction say the Second Discourse has?
(a) 4 sections.
(b) 5 sections.
(c) 9 sections.
(d) 6 sections.

4. Who does Rousseau say is wrong to think that because men have no natural sense of good that they must be wicked?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Himself.
(c) Plato.
(d) Hobbes.

5. What does Rousseau suppose concerning men at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) They have the power to change things.
(b) They are fully developed.
(c) They are smart.
(d) They know how to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?

2. What is not superior to the present day?

3. Who does Rousseau say does not exhibit conditions to the same degree as modern man?

4. What do people accept in Rousseau's perfect city?

5. What does Rousseau say of the human animal?

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