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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should academies organize society around?
(a) Riches.
(b) Family heritage.
(c) What knowledge different class should have.
(d) Clans.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences restrict?
(a) Liberty.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Ability to think.

8. Why does Rousseau say humanity remains secure?
(a) They are able to travel to other countries easily.
(b) They are able to understand the sciences.
(c) They are able to appreciate the arts.
(d) They are able to see each other's motives.

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

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

11. Who attacked art and science according to Rousseau?
(a) Plato.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Socrates.

12. What was the most popular form of government in Europe during Rousseau's time?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Enlightened Despotism.
(d) Capitalism.

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

14. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?
(a) Saint John of the Cross
(b) Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Saint Thomas.
(d) Saint Augustine.

15. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?
(a) Bad education
(b) Studying art.
(c) Blindly following the philosophers.
(d) Moral behavior.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say artists rarely are?

2. What are the two laws of nature and natural right according to Rousseau?

3. How does Rousseau qualify the relationship between the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences and their influence on society?

4. What does Rousseau argue enlightenment usually produces?

5. How many sections does the Introduction say the Second Discourse has?

(see the answer keys)

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