View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is man capable of doing according to Rousseau?
(a) Improving oneself.
(b) Killing others.
(c) Loving others.
(d) Ignoring the obvious.

2. Where does Rousseau think language came from?
(a) Necessity to warn others of danger.
(b) Interaction between parent and child.
(c) Necessity to pass knowledge.
(d) Interaction between clans.

3. What is Rousseau using the dedication for?
(a) Thanks for the chance to think about the origin of inequality.
(b) Thanks for his riches.
(c) Thanks for his birth.
(d) Thanks for being so generous.

4. Whose view does Rousseau say is wrong concerning the state of nature?
(a) Socrates'.
(b) The French king's.
(c) Locke's.
(d) Hobbes'.

5. What should be equal if talents are equal according to Rousseau?
(a) Riches.
(b) Art.
(c) Love.
(d) Property.

6. Who does Rousseau say does not exhibit conditions to the same degree as modern man?
(a) Children.
(b) Ancient men.
(c) Women.
(d) Savages.

7. What does Rousseau say are divided between amour-propre and primitive emotions?
(a) Good men.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Repressed men.

8. What can magistrates easily usurp according to Rousseau?
(a) Power.
(b) Lives.
(c) Properties.
(d) Money.

9. What does Rousseau want his rulers to consider?
(a) The people's needs.
(b) Rousseau's needs.
(c) Hobbes' ideas.
(d) France's needs.

10. What does Rousseau say of the needs and goals of the society compared to that of the government?
(a) They are always the same.
(b) The needs of the government trump the ones of the people.
(c) The people should require that his needs be taken into account.
(d) They might not be the same.

11. What does Rousseau say of the process that makes men both wicked and sociable?
(a) It is recent.
(b) It can be reverted.
(c) It occurs every day.
(d) It could have occurred in many ways.

12. What has the power to disrupt society regularly?
(a) The law.
(b) Love.
(c) War.
(d) A revolution.

13. What does Rousseau say binds the poor and gives the rich new power?
(a) Tribunals.
(b) The law.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Agriculture.

14. According to Rousseau, who is forced to follow what men are doing?
(a) Other countries.
(b) Their neighbor.
(c) Their children.
(d) Their spouses.

15. Who should the law rule in Rousseau's perfect city?
(a) Only the rich.
(b) Only the poor.
(c) Everyone, but him.
(d) All.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of inequality is established by nature?

2. What does Rousseau say a state should not have any desire for?

3. What does Rousseau ignore that he says is acquired through a long process?

4. What power does Rousseau want the citizens of the cities to be able to do?

5. Who tells the human to do good for himself and as little evil as he can to others?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 439 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample