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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 say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Morality.
(c) Knowledge of what is beautiful.
(d) Patience.

2. Why do men separate themselves according to Rousseau?
(a) To play.
(b) To plot against others.
(c) To hide their vice.
(d) To think good thoughts.

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

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

5. What does Rousseau say the increase of knowledge helps generate?
(a) Science.
(b) Worthy philosophers.
(c) Good behavior.
(d) Time for vice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?

2. What does Rousseau say of the process that makes men both wicked and sociable?

3. What example does Rousseau use to demonstrate the link between free time and vanity?

4. When did Rousseau flee France?

5. What did the man who invented property rights found according to Rousseau in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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