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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Natural, but rude.
(b) Rude, but precious.
(c) Rude.
(d) Natural.

2. What does Rousseau argue generates ethics?
(a) Religion.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Pride.
(d) Intelligence.

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

4. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) The power of the noblemen.
(b) The riches of the bourgeois.
(c) Arts.
(d) Riches, vice and oppression.

5. What does Rousseau say men are coming to?
(a) A new sort of reason.
(b) New reasons to make war.
(c) A new sort of intelligence
(d) Rediscover the old ways.

6. What does Rousseau wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Values.
(d) Morality.

7. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?
(a) It's thirst for knowledge?
(b) It's size.
(c) It's desire for art.
(d) It's reliance on science.

8. What does Rousseau think artistic progress produces?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Corruption.
(d) Riches.

9. What reflects in the science it helped produce?
(a) Processes.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Evil.
(d) Goodness.

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

11. What collapses with riches according to Rousseau?
(a) Morality.
(b) Education.
(c) Art.
(d) Science.

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

13. What do lazy children perform according to Rousseau?
(a) Great art.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Wicked deeds.
(d) Play games.

14. What is needed by the law according to Rousseau?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Justice.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Judges.

15. What is, in science, more likely to result from speculation than truth?
(a) Mistakes.
(b) A workable product.
(c) Receiving research funding.
(d) Error.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say matters little in the pursuit of virtue?

2. What does Rousseau say sciences does not improve?

3. What does Rousseau say preceded what men are coming to?

4. What does Rousseau say at the end of Chapter 1 might contradict virtue?

5. What does Rousseau say that the men will soon require?

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