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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say would have been prevented if someone called on the lies of the man who invented property rights?
(a) Many calamities.
(b) Banks.
(c) Trials.
(d) Lawyer.

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

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

4. What do people accept in Rousseau's perfect city?
(a) The state ruling authority.
(b) To be treated fairly.
(c) Rousseau's wisdom.
(d) Art.

5. What does Rousseau say of the human animal?
(a) It is flawed.
(b) It is an ingenious machine.
(c) It is a precise clock.
(d) It is outdated.

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

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

8. What does Rousseau say generates political distinction?
(a) Money.
(b) Economical power.
(c) Civil distinction.
(d) Religion.

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

10. What do the rich become when the new accumulation of riches is possible according to Rousseau?
(a) Kings.
(b) Tyrants.
(c) Usurpers.
(d) Thieves.

11. What do not have regular form according to Rousseau?
(a) Monarchies.
(b) Totalitarian governments.
(c) Early governments.
(d) Democratic governments.

12. What does Rousseau conclude social and political inequality is not?
(a) Nature of man.
(b) Just.
(c) Lawful.
(d) The way it is.

13. What does Rousseau say about the interests of the ruler and the people in the perfect city he would choose as birthplace?
(a) They are united.
(b) The interests of the ruler are more important.
(c) The interests of the people are more important.
(d) They are different.

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

15. What do differing forms of government result from according to Rousseau?
(a) Different amount of wealth.
(b) Different tyrants.
(c) Different level of inequality.
(d) Different languages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau encourage the youth to look forward to?

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

3. What does the human owe many of their ideas to according to Rousseau?

4. What do men become when they acquire more than others according to Rousseau?

5. What principle does Rousseau think is an extremely important idea in his theory of the person?

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