The First and Second Discourses: By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Test | Final Test - Easy

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The First and Second Discourses: By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do people see the weak according to Rousseau?
(a) People try to not to see them.
(b) As ignorant.
(c) In power.
(d) Enslaved.

3. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain?
(a) Their democracy.
(b) Their right to ignore the law.
(c) Their art.
(d) Their banks.

4. What kind of place would Rousseau have loved to be born?
(a) A place where people are equal in their job.
(b) France.
(c) A place where he can be the ruler.
(d) A place where he could work.

5. How many natural principles does Rousseau say exist before reason?
(a) 8 principles.
(b) 3 principles.
(c) 4 principles.
(d) 2 principles.

6. What is man's second feeling according to Rousseau?
(a) Envy.
(b) Desire.
(c) Love.
(d) Self-preservation.

7. What type of government arises when inequality is the weakest?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Republic.
(d) Oligarchy.

8. Who theorizes that political authority originates with the father?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Filmer.
(d) Hobbes.

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

10. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?
(a) The loss of his rights.
(b) The loss of freedom of his countrymen.
(c) The loss of his influence.
(d) The loss of his sister.

11. What does the savage man constantly focuses on?
(a) Self-preservation.
(b) Betting himself.
(c) Love.
(d) War.

12. What does Rousseau say a state should not have any desire for?
(a) Power.
(b) Conquest.
(c) Making people happy.
(d) Governance.

13. What philosopher insists men always fight?
(a) Locke.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Rousseau.

14. What does not arise when men become dependent on one another?
(a) Inequality.
(b) Envy.
(c) War.
(d) Love.

15. What does Rousseau suppose concerning men at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) They have the power to change things.
(b) They are smart.
(c) They are fully developed.
(d) They know how to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what is the first step to uncover the nature of inequality?

2. What does Rousseau say men dwell on?

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

4. What does natural sentiment lead to according to Rousseau?

5. What does Rousseau conclude social and political inequality is not?

(see the answer keys)

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