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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?
(a) Bread.
(b) The industrial revolution.
(c) Slavery and misery.
(d) Machinery.

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

3. Who does Rousseau say is wrong to think that because men have no natural sense of good that they must be wicked?
(a) Himself.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Hobbes.

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

5. What principle does Rousseau think is an extremely important idea in his theory of the person?
(a) Love of others.
(b) Amour-propre.
(c) Language.
(d) Self preservation.

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

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

8. What does Rousseau think arises out of the property phenomenon?
(a) Art.
(b) Banks.
(c) Speech.
(d) Rulers.

9. What type of inequality is established by nature?
(a) Political power.
(b) Physical.
(c) Economic.
(d) Appreciation of art.

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

11. What does inequality of wealth and condition produce?
(a) An economic drift.
(b) Prejudices.
(c) War.
(d) Bad Laws.

12. What does the human owe many of their ideas to according to Rousseau?
(a) Chance.
(b) Speech.
(c) Art.
(d) Knowledge.

13. What does not preserve liberty according to Rousseau?
(a) The king.
(b) Alienating one's liberty.
(c) The state.
(d) His theory.

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

15. Who tells the human to do good for himself and as little evil as he can to others?
(a) Nature.
(b) The law.
(c) God.
(d) Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say of the human animal?

2. What is man capable of doing according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?

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

5. What does Rousseau say removes men from reality?

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