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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. How many natural principles does Rousseau say exist before reason?
(a) 8 principles.
(b) 3 principles.
(c) 4 principles.
(d) 2 principles.

2. What follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?
(a) The industrial revolution.
(b) Bread.
(c) Machinery.
(d) Slavery and misery.

3. What does Rousseau say generates political distinction?
(a) Economical power.
(b) Religion.
(c) Money.
(d) Civil distinction.

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

5. What type of government arises when inequality is the weakest?
(a) Republic.
(b) Oligarchy.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Democracy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say about relating the different types of inequality?

2. What does natural sentiment lead to according to Rousseau?

3. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain?

4. What does inequality of wealth and condition produce?

5. What does not arise when men become dependent on one another?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is fraught with challenges according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau have high hopes for?

3. What does Rousseau believe about those who create property rights in Chapter 5?

4. What happens when we give up liberty?

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

6. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?

7. How does Chapter 3 open?

8. What does Rousseau claim about the rich or the wealthy?

9. What natural enemies does man have, according to Rousseau?

10. What are the two conclusions about inequality that Rousseau traces at the end of Chapter 5?

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