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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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 obscures it.
(d) It make it better.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What should be equal if talents are equal according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Riches.
(c) Art.
(d) Property.

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

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

14. What is Rousseau using the dedication for?
(a) Thanks for his riches.
(b) Thanks for being so generous.
(c) Thanks for his birth.
(d) Thanks for the chance to think about the origin of inequality.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Rousseau want to live his life?

3. What does Rousseau claim people can look at to discover the current nature of humanity?

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

5. What is the first language of man according to Rousseau?

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