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

2. What does Rousseau argue generates physics?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Secrecy.
(c) Idleness.
(d) Greed.

3. What does luxury generate according to Rousseau?
(a) Good men.
(b) Travel.
(c) Art.
(d) Free time.

4. What does Rousseau say became of arts and sciences?
(a) A ghetto for rich people.
(b) Dictatorial.
(c) Open.
(d) Easy to access.

5. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Knowledge of what is beautiful.
(c) Morality.
(d) Patience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?

2. What are the two laws of nature and natural right according to Rousseau?

3. What collapses with riches according to Rousseau?

4. How does Rousseau qualify the time doing nothing as?

5. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What paradox does Rousseau discuss in Chapter 1?

3. What does Rousseau believe about open discernment?

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

5. What are the two laws of nature and natural right?

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

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

8. At the start of Chapter 1, what is Rousseau concerned about?

9. What does Rousseau argue about his society according to the Introduction?

10. What does the First Discourse argue?

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