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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?
(a) Displeasing the King.
(b) Having the same theory as Rousseau.
(c) Metaphysical disputes.
(d) Discussion about the law of nature.

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

6. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Patience.
(c) Knowledge of what is beautiful.
(d) Morality.

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

8. What example does Rousseau use to demonstrate the link between free time and vanity?
(a) Cyprian king.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Roman emperors.
(d) The Frank empire.

9. How does Rousseau say science produces war?
(a) Because it makes nations jealous of each other.
(b) Because it leads to better economy.
(c) Because it leads to new weapons.
(d) Because it leads to better men.

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

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

12. What does Rousseau argue science often begins with in Chapter 2?
(a) Superstition.
(b) Need for new weapons.
(c) Desire for power.
(d) Lack of knowledge.

13. How can what Rousseau say fell apart survive under?
(a) Law and government.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) His guidance.
(d) Religion.

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

15. What does Rousseau say the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences do?
(a) Make despotic governments bearable.
(b) Make people think.
(c) Make untalented people famous.
(d) Make people civilized.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does science prevent the production of according to Rousseau?

2. What does laziness do to men according to Rousseau?

3. What did the "philosophes" think would happen to a society where false beliefs wither?

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

5. What displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?

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