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

2. What does Rousseau believe happens with the more a human knows?
(a) Less time for mischief.
(b) More time to want greed.
(c) More time for mischief.
(d) More time to discuss topics.

3. According to Rousseau what does the chief in the state usually seek in his individual's happiness?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Their cry of praise.
(c) Their misery.
(d) Their objection.

4. What do people seek that do not exist, according to Rousseau at the end of Chapter 2, "A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Power.
(b) Remedies.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

5. What does Rousseau want all individuals to have love for?
(a) Their history.
(b) Their country.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do modern centuries see natural law?

2. What does Rousseau believe follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?

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

4. What has added little to happiness in humans, according to Rousseau?

5. What is a natural virtue considered to be, according to Rousseau?

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