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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 cannot be uncovered about nature's inequality, according to Rousseau?
(a) The reason.
(b) The detriment.
(c) The result.
(d) The source.

2. According to Rousseau, what is the outcome of man's labor?
(a) More greed.
(b) More resources.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Continual suffrage.

3. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?
(a) Opposing interests,
(b) Opposing goals.
(c) The game goals.
(d) The same beliefs.

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

5. What does Rousseau think about the man who invented property rights?
(a) He doesn't say anything about it.
(b) He pulled one over on his fellows.
(c) He was smart.
(d) He was rude.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rousseau want to live and die?

2. What does Rousseau feel happens to the state as a result of luxury development?

3. 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"?

4. What does Rousseau want to know about the "strong"?

5. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?

(see the answer key)

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