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

2. What example does Rousseau use to demonstrate the link between free time and vanity?
(a) Cyprian king.
(b) Roman emperors.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) The Frank empire.

3. Whose view does Rousseau say is wrong concerning the state of nature?
(a) Locke's.
(b) The French king's.
(c) Socrates'.
(d) Hobbes'.

4. What does Rousseau say preceded what men are coming to?
(a) Socratism.
(b) Sophism.
(c) Enlightenment.
(d) Barbarism.

5. What does Rousseau say proves his views of what man actually is?
(a) His studies of books.
(b) Talking to God.
(c) His continual experience of men.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can magistrates easily usurp according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau say the shown man naturally is?

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

4. What does Rousseau say became of arts and sciences?

5. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to submit to?

(see the answer key)

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