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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 man capable of doing according to Rousseau?
(a) Improving oneself.
(b) Killing others.
(c) Ignoring the obvious.
(d) Loving others.
2. What do men become when they acquire more than others according to Rousseau?
(a) Proud.
(b) Kings.
(c) Artists.
(d) Leaders.
3. What does Rousseau conclude social and political inequality is not?
(a) Just.
(b) The way it is.
(c) Lawful.
(d) Nature of man.
4. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?
(a) The loss of his sister.
(b) The loss of freedom of his countrymen.
(c) The loss of his influence.
(d) The loss of his rights.
5. What does Rousseau say are divided between amour-propre and primitive emotions?
(a) Women.
(b) Children.
(c) Good men.
(d) Repressed men.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does not arise when men become dependent on one another?
2. What type of democracy would Rousseau like?
3. What type of government is Rousseau concerned about in Chapter 3?
4. Who does Rousseau say is wrong to think that because men have no natural sense of good that they must be wicked?
5. Who is Chapter 3 dedicated to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does philosophy do?
2. What does Rousseau begin by supposing in Chapter 4?
3. What does Rousseau argue about humanity at the end of Chapter 3?
4. What does Rousseau claim about the rich or the wealthy?
5. What are the two conclusions about inequality that Rousseau traces at the end of Chapter 5?
6. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?
7. What natural enemies does man have, according to Rousseau?
8. What are the two types of inequality among humans presented by Rousseau in Chapter 4?
9. What does Rousseau desire about law and the people?
10. How does Chapter 3 open?
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