This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II.

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 fall of empire.
(c) Rome's fall of empire.
(d) Europe's barbarism.

2. Which was NOT a result in France from leaving behind ignorance?
(a) Equality.
(b) Profligacy.
(c) Increased slavery.
(d) Luxury.

3. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?
(a) A period of art.
(b) A revolution.
(c) A new period of desire.
(d) The ability to forgive.

4. According to Rousseau, what led to the degeneration of society?
(a) The progress of talent.
(b) The establishment of beauty.
(c) The establishment of talent.
(d) The progress of art.

5. Slavery makes people tend to be what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Affiliated.
(b) Equal.
(c) Civilized.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau's "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" discuss about the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences and morality?

2. What do few artists defend according to Rousseau in "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

3. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?

4. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?

5. How does Rousseau believe men should feel at the state of leaving ignorance?

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