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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What power does Rousseau want the citizens of the cities to be able to do?
(a) To make their own laws.
(b) To live in peace.
(c) To create their own art.
(d) To live outside the city.

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

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

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

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(a) It is outdated.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

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

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

15. What does natural sentiment lead to according to Rousseau?
(a) Respecting the law.
(b) Envy.
(c) War.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is rooted in passion according to Rousseau?

2. What does inequality of wealth and condition produce?

3. According to Rousseau, what is the first step to uncover the nature of inequality?

4. What do people accept in Rousseau's perfect city?

5. What does Rousseau say removes men from reality?

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