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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is man's second feeling according to Rousseau?
(a) Envy.
(b) Desire.
(c) Self-preservation.
(d) Love.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What is man capable of doing according to Rousseau?
(a) Ignoring the obvious.
(b) Improving oneself.
(c) Killing others.
(d) Loving others.

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

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

14. How many types of inequality does Rousseau see in Chapter 4?
(a) 8 types.
(b) 3 types.
(c) 5 types.
(d) 2 types.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the rich become when the new accumulation of riches is possible according to Rousseau?

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

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

4. Who is Chapter 3 dedicated to?

5. What does Rousseau say of the human animal?

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