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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What civilizations does Rousseau use to demonstrate his point on morality?
(a) Germans and Prussians.
(b) Romans and Greeks.
(c) Russians and Japanese.
(d) French and British.

4. What does Rousseau say men came to love?
(a) Arts.
(b) Religion.
(c) Sciences.
(d) The restriction imposed by arts and sciences.

5. What does Rousseau say about public praise?
(a) Artists hate them.
(b) Only the philosopher deserves them.
(c) Artists love them.
(d) They are only good for leaders.

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

7. What does Rousseau say became of arts and sciences?
(a) Easy to access.
(b) A ghetto for rich people.
(c) Open.
(d) Dictatorial.

8. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?
(a) The rational basis of monarchy.
(b) Rousseau's relation with Frederick the Great.
(c) People obsessed by material possession.
(d) The rational basis of natural law and religion.

9. How would artists feel if they were to work amongst those who hate their work according to Rousseau?
(a) Happy.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Overwhelmed.
(d) Wasted.

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

11. How does Rousseau qualify the time doing nothing as?
(a) Wicked.
(b) Wasted.
(c) Rest.
(d) Time to reflect.

12. What are the growing illegalities based on according to Rousseau?
(a) Birth.
(b) Talents of men.
(c) The social political make-up of the time.
(d) Country of origin.

13. What does Rousseau say that the men will soon require?
(a) Arts.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Patience.

14. What fell apart according to Rousseau?
(a) The French monarchy.
(b) Totalitarian government.
(c) The upperclass way of life.
(d) Arts and sciences.

15. What does Rousseau argue generates physics?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Secrecy.
(c) Greed.
(d) Idleness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rousseau die?

2. What is needed by the law according to Rousseau?

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

4. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?

5. What type of government does Rousseau say has no rationale and is against nature?

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