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

2. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?
(a) Speech.
(b) Their ancestors.
(c) The nature.
(d) God.

3. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?
(a) Their heated emotions.
(b) Their natural emotions.
(c) Their irrational emotions.
(d) Their overall emotions.

4. How are virtue and learning related according to "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I"?
(a) They are polar opposites.
(b) One must learn to understand virtue.
(c) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.
(d) They are contradictory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau argue at the beginning of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

2. How does Rousseau see the state of man in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

3. What does Rousseau believe government did NOT evolve from?

4. Human morals are not improved by what subject according to Rousseau?

5. When does Rousseau believe inequality came?

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