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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say arts require?
(a) Power.
(b) Talent.
(c) Passion.
(d) Luxury.

2. What was the result of the arts and sciences becoming despotic, according to Rousseau?
(a) The public rejected it.
(b) It stifled mans' original liberty and caused people to love their slavery.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The public embraced it.

3. What leads to sex for man, according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Natural sentiment.
(c) Lust.
(d) Carnal desire.

4. What type of rights does Rousseau want the cities in his State to have?
(a) To vote.
(b) To make laws.
(c) To make war.
(d) To make peace.

5. According to Rousseau, in the revival, the arts and sciences existed under what entities?
(a) Government and the law.
(b) Power and religion.
(c) Reason and religion.
(d) Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?

2. What does Rousseau believe divides a repressed man?

3. What did the rich become, according to Rousseau?

4. What cannot be uncovered about nature's inequality, according to Rousseau?

5. Mankind's new period of reason is a transition from what age according to Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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