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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did the "philosophes" think would happen to a society where false beliefs wither?
(a) It would collapse.
(b) Women would come to power.
(c) It would get better.
(d) It would rule the world.

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

5. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?
(a) France.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

6. What is needed by arts according to Rousseau?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Museums.
(c) Riches.
(d) Paint.

7. What is the First Discourse about according to the Introduction?
(a) Popular enlightenment corrupts morals.
(b) An attack on Locke.
(c) Frederick the Great's accomplishments.
(d) Monarchy is a good government.

8. When did Rousseau flee France?
(a) 1762.
(b) 1775.
(c) 1770.
(d) 1778.

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

10. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to recognize?
(a) Their piety.
(b) Talent.
(c) The greatness of their leaders.
(d) Their own weakness.

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

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

13. When did Rousseau die?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1804.
(d) 1778.

14. What does Rousseau say happened to what fell apart in Chapter 1?
(a) It was taken over by new philosophers.
(b) It was resurrected.
(c) It was forgotten.
(d) It was cast aside.

15. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?
(a) Nice.
(b) Paris.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Lyon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?

2. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?

3. What does Rousseau say men are coming to?

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

5. What is not superior to the present day?

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