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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?
(a) America's industrialism.
(b) Europe's barbarism.
(c) Rome's fall of empire.
(d) Europe's fall of empire.

2. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?
(a) It moves humans from their original state.
(b) It enables the human to question everything.
(c) It takes humans away from the natural.
(d) It renders the human blind.

3. What does amore-propre preserve?
(a) The species.
(b) The greed.
(c) The nature.
(d) The desire.

4. What can only be brought about by ignorance given its results according to Rousseau?
(a) Moral behavior.
(b) Bliss.
(c) Talent.
(d) Political behavior.

5. What is true philosophy, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Knowing how to act.
(b) Knowing how to speak.
(c) Knowing consequence.
(d) Knowing power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of state is Rousseau interested in having?

2. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?

3. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?

4. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?

5. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?

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