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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the human owe many of their ideas to according to Rousseau?
(a) Chance.
(b) Art.
(c) Speech.
(d) Knowledge.
2. What did the man who invented property rights found according to Rousseau in Chapter 5?
(a) Tribunals.
(b) Law school.
(c) Banks.
(d) Society.
3. What produces economic inequality according to Rousseau?
(a) Leaders.
(b) Natural inequality.
(c) Men.
(d) Industrialists.
4. Where does Rousseau think language came from?
(a) Interaction between parent and child.
(b) Interaction between clans.
(c) Necessity to warn others of danger.
(d) Necessity to pass knowledge.
5. 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) The people should require that his needs be taken into account.
(d) They are always the same.
6. Why do the rich produce the state according to Rousseau?
(a) They need banks.
(b) They want power.
(c) They need to bind the poor with laws.
(d) They have much to lose.
7. What does Rousseau say men dwell on?
(a) Love.
(b) Wants.
(c) Power.
(d) Knowledge.
8. What philosopher insists men always fight?
(a) Hobbes.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Locke.
9. What would make the state decay according to Rousseau?
(a) Noblemen.
(b) Lack of trust.
(c) Money.
(d) Art.
10. What is man capable of doing according to Rousseau?
(a) Killing others.
(b) Ignoring the obvious.
(c) Loving others.
(d) Improving oneself.
11. What does Rousseau say a state should not have any desire for?
(a) Power.
(b) Making people happy.
(c) Conquest.
(d) Governance.
12. What does Rousseau say generates political distinction?
(a) Civil distinction.
(b) Money.
(c) Religion.
(d) Economical power.
13. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain?
(a) Their right to ignore the law.
(b) Their banks.
(c) Their democracy.
(d) Their art.
14. According to Rousseau, what is the first step to uncover the nature of inequality?
(a) Making money.
(b) Discovering man's true nature.
(c) Learning science.
(d) Studying art.
15. What does inequality of wealth and condition produce?
(a) Bad Laws.
(b) War.
(c) An economic drift.
(d) Prejudices.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of place would Rousseau have loved to be born?
2. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?
3. Who should the law rule in Rousseau's perfect city?
4. What does Rousseau say removes men from reality?
5. According to Rousseau, who is forced to follow what men are doing?
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