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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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 different.
(b) The interests of the ruler are more important.
(c) They are united.
(d) The interests of the people are more important.

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

6. What is rooted in passion according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Art.
(c) Human understanding.
(d) War.

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

8. Who does Rousseau say is wrong to think that because men have no natural sense of good that they must be wicked?
(a) Hobbes.
(b) Himself.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

9. What does the human owe many of their ideas to according to Rousseau?
(a) Chance.
(b) Art.
(c) Speech.
(d) Knowledge.

10. What did the man who invented property rights found according to Rousseau in Chapter 5?
(a) Banks.
(b) Society.
(c) Law school.
(d) Tribunals.

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

12. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?
(a) The loss of his sister.
(b) The loss of his rights.
(c) The loss of his influence.
(d) The loss of freedom of his countrymen.

13. What does Rousseau say about relating the different types of inequality?
(a) It cannot be achieved by a non-philosopher.
(b) Only Rousseau can do it.
(c) It is impossible.
(d) It is easy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau want his rulers to consider?

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

3. What philosopher insists men always fight?

4. What should be equal if talents are equal according to Rousseau?

5. What follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?

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