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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what is the savage man of nature focused on?
(a) Survival.
(b) Self knowledge.
(c) Arts and sciences.
(d) Self preservation.

2. 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?
(a) How morality and corruption affect one another.
(b) If morality is purified or corrupted by arts and science.
(c) If corruption negates artistic quality.
(d) If morality purifies science.

3. What is the main task of Rousseau's, "The Discourse on the Origin of Inequality"?
(a) To discover the origin of inequality.
(b) To discuss the history of inequality.
(c) To discover origins.
(d) To compare and contrast equality vs inequality.

4. What does Rousseau believe does not preserve one's liberty?
(a) Laughing at one's liberty.
(b) Ignoring one's liberty.
(c) Alienation of one's liberty.
(d) Using one's liberty.

5. What does Rousseau reflect on at the beginning of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) The origin of inequality.
(b) The origin of the stars.
(c) The origin of music.
(d) The origin of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should society teach men to do instead of pursuing virtue, according to Rousseau?

2. What is human understanding rooted in, according to Rousseau?

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"?

4. What does natural inequality produce, according to Rousseau?

5. What led to government through a non moral process?

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