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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau argue does not enter into consideration when a nation is formed by men?
(a) Laws.
(b) Equality.
(c) Fairness.
(d) Love.

2. What knowledge cannot be imputed when imagining the state of nature according to Rousseau?
(a) Justice.
(b) War.
(c) Love.
(d) Law.

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

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(b) It is outdated.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

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

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

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

8. What do men become when they acquire more than others according to Rousseau?
(a) Kings.
(b) Artists.
(c) Proud.
(d) Leaders.

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

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

11. How many natural principles does Rousseau say exist before reason?
(a) 2 principles.
(b) 3 principles.
(c) 4 principles.
(d) 8 principles.

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

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

14. What type of government arises when inequality is the weakest?
(a) Republic.
(b) Monarchy.
(c) Oligarchy.
(d) Democracy.

15. What does Rousseau say binds the poor and gives the rich new power?
(a) The law.
(b) Tribunals.
(c) Leaders.
(d) Agriculture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can magistrates easily usurp according to Rousseau?

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

3. What does Rousseau say of the needs and goals of the society compared to that of the government?

4. What follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?

5. What produces economic inequality according to Rousseau?

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