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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, A Discourse on Political Economy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Rousseau, what is the natural or physical inequality established by?
(a) Society.
(b) Nature.
(c) Government.
(d) Weather.

2. What did Rousseau believe created physics?
(a) Greed.
(b) Idleness.
(c) Pride.
(d) Desire.

3. What would make property rights equal?
(a) War.
(b) New government.
(c) New leadership.
(d) If human talents were equal.

4. What does Rousseau believe man's current state has more of in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Denial over all.
(b) Luxury.
(c) Egotism.
(d) More pain than pleasure.

5. What does Rousseau believe is the reason men now live apart?
(a) To have more land.
(b) To hide their wickedness.
(c) To keep their personal secrets.
(d) Secrecy is best.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rousseau think men lie under restraint?

2. What does Rousseau believe would return humans to the original state of society?

3. What does Rousseau believe is an artist's greatest compensation for his labor?

4. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?

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

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