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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Rousseau praise for his ignorance in "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part 1"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Issac Newton.
(d) Socrates.

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

3. How did Rousseau feel men treated morality before art?
(a) With passion.
(b) Men were ignorant to it.
(c) Men ignored it.
(d) Men had a rude but natural morality.

4. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Talent is defined, but not beauty.
(b) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(c) Beauty makes one work harder.
(d) Talent and beauty are not defined.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?

2. What does Rousseau question moral behavior could strictly be brought about by?

3. What can only be brought about by ignorance given its results according to Rousseau?

4. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?

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"?

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