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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Chapter 3 dedicated to?
(a) Rousseau's mother.
(b) Rousseau's ruler.
(c) Rousseau's brother.
(d) Rousseau's sister.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do not have regular form according to Rousseau?
(a) Democratic governments.
(b) Totalitarian governments.
(c) Early governments.
(d) Monarchies.

10. 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) They are always the same.
(c) They might not be the same.
(d) The needs of the government trump the ones of the people.

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

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

13. How does Rousseau want to live his life?
(a) In freedom.
(b) Nicely.
(c) Fast.
(d) Quietly.

14. What do people accept in Rousseau's perfect city?
(a) Rousseau's wisdom.
(b) To be treated fairly.
(c) The state ruling authority.
(d) Art.

15. What produces economic inequality according to Rousseau?
(a) Natural inequality.
(b) Industrialists.
(c) Men.
(d) Leaders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of government is Rousseau concerned about in Chapter 3?

2. What does Rousseau say about relating the different types of inequality?

3. Who theorizes that political authority originates with the father?

4. What type of inequality is established by nature?

5. What kind of place would Rousseau have loved to be born?

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