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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Rousseau say removes men from reality?
(a) Reflection.
(b) Art.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Love.

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

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

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

8. What would make the state decay according to Rousseau?
(a) Lack of trust.
(b) Money.
(c) Noblemen.
(d) Art.

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

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

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

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

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

14. What does Rousseau have for the republic of his birth?
(a) Little respect.
(b) High hopes.
(c) Money.
(d) Gratitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the savage man constantly focuses on?

2. What does Rousseau say men dwell on?

3. What has the power to disrupt society regularly?

4. How do people see the weak according to Rousseau?

5. What do differing forms of government result from according to Rousseau?

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