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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 is Rousseau's biggest worry when discussing the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences in?
(a) That he will not explain it.
(b) It is difficult to treat the subject properly.
(c) To be selective in his research.
(d) To not be objective.

2. What does Rousseau exhort his citizens NOT to do?
(a) Distrust one another.
(b) Trust one another.
(c) Distrust the state.
(d) Distrust the government.

3. Who is Rousseau saddened by in "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) His citizen's loss of power.
(b) His citizen's loss of equality.
(c) His citizen's loss of freedom.
(d) Himself.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rousseau think men lie under restraint?

2. What does Rousseau want all individuals to have love for?

3. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau believe happens with the more a human knows?

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

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