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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first language of man according to Rousseau?
(a) French.
(b) Simple cry of nature.
(c) Babylonian.
(d) Latin.

2. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?
(a) It nurtures it.
(b) It destroys it.
(c) It make it better.
(d) It obscures it.

3. What does Rousseau encourage the youth to look forward to?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Political power.
(c) Mild pleasures.
(d) Marriage.

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

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

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

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

8. What does Rousseau ignore that he says is acquired through a long process?
(a) Love.
(b) Knowledge of the law.
(c) Artificial faculties.
(d) Scientific knowledge.

9. Why do the rich produce the state according to Rousseau?
(a) They need banks.
(b) They need to bind the poor with laws.
(c) They want power.
(d) They have much to lose.

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

11. What does Rousseau say men dwell on?
(a) Love.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Power.
(d) Wants.

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

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

14. What does Rousseau claim people can look at to discover the current nature of humanity?
(a) The political system of Switzerland.
(b) Books.
(c) His writings.
(d) Contemporary historical events.

15. What is rooted in passion according to Rousseau?
(a) Art.
(b) Love.
(c) Human understanding.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Rousseau say is wrong to think that because men have no natural sense of good that they must be wicked?

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

3. What do the rich become when the new accumulation of riches is possible according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau suppose concerning men at the start of Chapter 4?

5. What does Rousseau say of the human animal?

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