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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. What does Rousseau have for the republic of his birth?
(a) High hopes.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Money.
(d) Little respect.

2. What power does Rousseau want the citizens of the cities to be able to do?
(a) To live in peace.
(b) To make their own laws.
(c) To create their own art.
(d) To live outside the city.

3. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?
(a) Why philosophers are great.
(b) The oppression of the masses.
(c) Inequality between men and women.
(d) Nature of man.

4. What does laziness do to men according to Rousseau?
(a) Regress them to the state of nature.
(b) Turn them into artists.
(c) Makes them into thieves.
(d) Makes them philosophers.

5. What does science prevent the production of according to Rousseau?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Worldly goods.
(c) Good men.
(d) Good leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau encourage the youth to look forward to?

2. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain?

3. What does the savage man constantly focuses on?

4. What does luxury generate according to Rousseau?

5. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?

(see the answer key)

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