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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Rousseau try to answer about society?
(a) Is society good for men?
(b) Is society accepting the rule of the kings?
(c) Is society ready for change?
(d) Is society good for animals?

2. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences restrict?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Ability to think.

3. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) Riches, vice and oppression.
(b) Arts.
(c) The riches of the bourgeois.
(d) The power of the noblemen.

4. What is needed by arts according to Rousseau?
(a) Riches.
(b) Museums.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Paint.

5. When did Rousseau flee France?
(a) 1778.
(b) 1762.
(c) 1775.
(d) 1770.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say sciences does not improve?

2. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?

3. Why does Rousseau say humanity remains secure?

4. What is, in science, more likely to result from speculation than truth?

5. What does Rousseau wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three main influences on Rousseau's work, according to the Introduction?

2. What does Rousseau state about artists?

3. What examples does Rousseau offer in his demonstration of how progress produced corruption?

4. What claim about civilization is made at the start of Chapter 2?

5. Why is Rousseau concerned about children?

6. What does the First Discourse argue?

7. What alarming consequences does science have, according to Chapter 2?

8. What is at the heart of Rousseau's philosophy, according to the Introduction?

9. What does Rousseau believe about the growing size of society?

10. Who does Rousseau refer to in his statement about how the sciences to not improve morals?

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