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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 would make the state decay according to Rousseau?
(a) Art.
(b) Money.
(c) Lack of trust.
(d) Noblemen.

2. What does Rousseau say would have been prevented if someone called on the lies of the man who invented property rights?
(a) Banks.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Trials.
(d) Many calamities.

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

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

5. Whose view does Rousseau say is wrong concerning the state of nature?
(a) Socrates'.
(b) Locke's.
(c) The French king's.
(d) Hobbes'.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What produces economic inequality according to Rousseau?

3. What do people accept in Rousseau's perfect city?

4. What does Rousseau say about the interests of the ruler and the people in the perfect city he would choose as birthplace?

5. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to submit to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as men acquire more?

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

3. How does Chapter 3 open?

4. What is the savage man's nature?

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

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

7. What happens as family grows?

8. What is fraught with challenges according to Rousseau?

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

10. What does nature give man?

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