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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 produces economic inequality according to Rousseau?
(a) Leaders.
(b) Industrialists.
(c) Men.
(d) Natural inequality.

2. Who should the law rule in Rousseau's perfect city?
(a) Only the rich.
(b) All.
(c) Only the poor.
(d) Everyone, but him.

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

4. What does Rousseau think arises out of the property phenomenon?
(a) Rulers.
(b) Art.
(c) Speech.
(d) Banks.

5. What is man capable of doing according to Rousseau?
(a) Improving oneself.
(b) Loving others.
(c) Killing others.
(d) Ignoring the obvious.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rousseau think language came from?

2. What has the power to disrupt society regularly?

3. What does Rousseau want his rulers to consider?

4. What does Rousseau have for the republic of his birth?

5. What does Rousseau say a state should not have any desire for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does philosophy do?

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

3. What happens when we give up liberty?

4. How does Rousseau proceed in his discussion on the state of nature?

5. What happens as men acquire more?

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

7. What is fraught with challenges according to Rousseau?

8. What does nature give man?

9. What does Rousseau begin by supposing in Chapter 4?

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

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