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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau ignore that he says is acquired through a long process?
(a) Artificial faculties.
(b) Scientific knowledge.
(c) Love.
(d) Knowledge of the law.

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

3. What type of inequality is established by nature?
(a) Economic.
(b) Political power.
(c) Physical.
(d) Appreciation of art.

4. 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.

5. Why do the rich produce the state according to Rousseau?
(a) They need to bind the poor with laws.
(b) They need banks.
(c) They want power.
(d) They have much to lose.

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

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

8. What type of government is Rousseau concerned about in Chapter 3?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Republican.

9. What does Rousseau have for the republic of his birth?
(a) Little respect.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) High hopes.
(d) Money.

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

11. Whose view does Rousseau say is wrong concerning the state of nature?
(a) The French king's.
(b) Socrates'.
(c) Hobbes'.
(d) Locke's.

12. What does Rousseau say men dwell on?
(a) Wants.
(b) Love.
(c) Power.
(d) Knowledge.

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

14. Who does Rousseau say does not exhibit conditions to the same degree as modern man?
(a) Savages.
(b) Ancient men.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is rooted in passion according to Rousseau?

2. What knowledge cannot be imputed when imagining the state of nature according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau say removes men from reality?

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

5. What did the man who invented property rights found according to Rousseau in Chapter 5?

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