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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 power does Rousseau want the citizens of the cities to be able to do?
(a) To create their own art.
(b) To make their own laws.
(c) To live outside the city.
(d) To live in peace.

2. What does Rousseau say removes men from reality?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Love.
(c) Art.
(d) Reflection.

3. What does Rousseau conclude social and political inequality is not?
(a) Lawful.
(b) Just.
(c) The way it is.
(d) Nature of man.

4. What does not preserve liberty according to Rousseau?
(a) The king.
(b) His theory.
(c) Alienating one's liberty.
(d) The state.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of government arises when inequality is the weakest?

2. What does Rousseau say are divided between amour-propre and primitive emotions?

3. What does Rousseau ignore that he says is acquired through a long process?

4. How does Rousseau want to live his life?

5. Who is Chapter 3 dedicated to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does philosophy do?

2. What happens as family grows?

3. How does Rousseau proceed in his discussion on the state of nature?

4. What happens when we give up liberty?

5. What do humans owe their ideas to, according to Rousseau?

6. What does Rousseau desire about law and the people?

7. What does Rousseau argue about humanity at the end of Chapter 3?

8. What does Rousseau seek to uncover according to Chapter 3?

9. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?

10. What does Rousseau discuss during his analysis of the metaphysical or moral side of man?

(see the answer keys)

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