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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?
(a) A way to better ourselves.
(b) Good for society.
(c) Dangerous.
(d) Captivating.

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

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

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

8. What question does Rousseau try to answer about society?
(a) Is society good for men?
(b) Is society accepting the rule of the kings?
(c) Is society ready for change?
(d) Is society good for animals?

9. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?
(a) Great kings.
(b) Dark sun.
(c) Honest politicians.
(d) Enlightened despotism.

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

11. What does Rousseau argue generates geometry?
(a) Nightmares.
(b) Reasoning.
(c) Greed.
(d) Sympathy.

12. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?
(a) The oppression of the masses.
(b) Inequality between men and women.
(c) Nature of man.
(d) Why philosophers are great.

13. What displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?
(a) Sciences and arts.
(b) Monarchy and prisons.
(c) Government and philosophy.
(d) Despotism and freedom.

14. What does Rousseau say is hidden in society?
(a) A chariot of intelligence.
(b) A car of knowledge.
(c) A boatload of art.
(d) A train of vices.

15. How does the Introduction classify both Hobbes and Locke?
(a) Pre-modern.
(b) Classical.
(c) Modern.
(d) Ancient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say men can hide from open discernment?

2. What does Rousseau argue science often begins with in Chapter 2?

3. What do lazy children perform according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?

5. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?

(see the answer keys)

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