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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The public embraced it.
(d) Nothing.

2. How is wasting time viewed by society today, according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Good.
(c) Needed.
(d) Evil.

3. The arts and sciences have helped human beings to repress what according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) Their infatuation.
(b) Their kindness.
(c) Their wickedness.
(d) Their narcissism.

4. What is much disagreement made over, according to Rousseau in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The nature of greed.
(b) The nature of man.
(c) The evolution of greed.
(d) The evolution of man.

5. What do people seek that do not exist, according to Rousseau at the end of Chapter 2, "A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Money.
(b) Power.
(c) Love.
(d) Remedies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main task of Rousseau's, "The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?

2. What type of land does Rousseau prefer to live in?

3. What does Rousseau hope the citizens are able to keep?

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

5. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?

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