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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does inequality cheapen according to Rousseau?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Weatlth.
(c) Love.
(d) Compassion.

2. What civilizations does Rousseau follow to track the decline of morality?
(a) The English and Greeks.
(b) The Germans and Irish.
(c) The Romans and Greeks.
(d) The Romans and Germans.

3. 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) They are contradictory.
(c) One must learn to understand virtue.
(d) Virtue exitsts without knowledge of it.

4. How many natural principles does Rousseau see in humanity at the end of "Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface"?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. What has destroyed taste, according to the end of "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Desire.
(b) Art.
(c) Moral corruption.
(d) Virtue.

6. According to Rousseau, which of the following did not arise as a result of leaving a state of ignorance?
(a) Luxury.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Slavery.
(d) Ignorance.

7. What makes motives hard to discern in the modern age, according to Rousseau?
(a) Talent and beauty are not defined.
(b) Talent is defined, but not beauty.
(c) Society is larger and uncertainty conceals vices.
(d) Beauty makes one work harder.

8. What type of state is Rousseau interested in having?
(a) One that is uninterested by conquest.
(b) One that is poor.
(c) One that is interested by conquest.
(d) One that is powerful.

9. Which of the following does Rousseau NOT want the youth to seek?
(a) Repentance.
(b) Luxury.
(c) Pleasures.
(d) Light.

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

11. What does Rousseau consider to see if the contradiction he found was true?
(a) The wealth of the state.
(b) The arts and sciences.
(c) The church.
(d) The government.

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

13. What does Rousseau say the size of the state should be in order to propose laws freely?
(a) Enormous.
(b) Equal.
(c) Large.
(d) Small.

14. What does Rousseau say wise men do not chase?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Love.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Power.

15. 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 the stars.
(b) The origin of life.
(c) The origin of inequality.
(d) The origin of music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would history be empty without, according Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau think the government and society can have?

3. Who spread knowledge to the masses, according to Rousseau?

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

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

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