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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau say made the fortune of perhaps ten thousand men?
(a) Slavery.
(b) The industrial revolution.
(c) The creation of the stock market.
(d) The fatal fire of London.

3. What does Rousseau say artists rarely are?
(a) Good.
(b) Patriots or good men.
(c) Successful.
(d) Smart.

4. What knowledge cannot be imputed when imagining the state of nature according to Rousseau?
(a) Justice.
(b) Love.
(c) Law.
(d) War.

5. How do people see the weak according to Rousseau?
(a) Enslaved.
(b) As ignorant.
(c) People try to not to see them.
(d) In power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say about the conclusion he comes to concerning human life?

2. What is rooted in passion according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau say will always trump any legitimate profit?

4. What does laziness do to men according to Rousseau?

5. Who does Rousseau say is wrong to think that because men have no natural sense of good that they must be wicked?

(see the answer key)

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