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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 does Rousseau say binds the poor and gives the rich new power?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Leaders.
(c) The law.
(d) Tribunals.

2. What does Rousseau ignore that he says is acquired through a long process?
(a) Knowledge of the law.
(b) Scientific knowledge.
(c) Artificial faculties.
(d) Love.

3. What should be equal if talents are equal according to Rousseau?
(a) Art.
(b) Love.
(c) Property.
(d) Riches.

4. What can magistrates easily usurp according to Rousseau?
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) Properties.
(d) Lives.

5. What philosopher insists men always fight?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Locke.
(c) Hobbes.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the savage man constantly focuses on?

2. Who theorizes that political authority originates with the father?

3. What does Rousseau claim people can look at to discover the current nature of humanity?

4. Why do the rich produce the state according to Rousseau?

5. How many types of inequality does Rousseau see in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the savage man's nature?

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

3. What happens as family grows?

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

5. What is fraught with challenges according to Rousseau?

6. What happens as men acquire more?

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

8. What happens when we give up liberty?

9. What does philosophy do?

10. What does Rousseau argue about contemporary historical events?

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