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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) Noblemen.
(b) Money.
(c) Art.
(d) Lack of trust.
2. Why do the rich produce the state according to Rousseau?
(a) They want power.
(b) They need to bind the poor with laws.
(c) They have much to lose.
(d) They need banks.
3. What power does Rousseau want the citizens of the cities to be able to do?
(a) To live outside the city.
(b) To create their own art.
(c) To live in peace.
(d) To make their own laws.
4. What does Rousseau say a state should not have any desire for?
(a) Governance.
(b) Conquest.
(c) Power.
(d) Making people happy.
5. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain?
(a) Their banks.
(b) Their art.
(c) Their democracy.
(d) Their right to ignore the law.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Rousseau say does not exhibit conditions to the same degree as modern man?
2. Where does Rousseau think language came from?
3. What does Rousseau say would have been prevented if someone called on the lies of the man who invented property rights?
4. What is man's second feeling according to Rousseau?
5. What does Rousseau say binds the poor and gives the rich new power?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is fraught with challenges according to Rousseau?
2. What does Rousseau begin by supposing in Chapter 4?
3. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?
4. What are the two types of inequality among humans presented by Rousseau in Chapter 4?
5. What does Rousseau argue about contemporary historical events?
6. What do humans owe their ideas to, according to Rousseau?
7. What happens when we give up liberty?
8. What happens as men acquire more?
9. What are the two conclusions about inequality that Rousseau traces at the end of Chapter 5?
10. What does philosophy do?
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