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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau write was required in order to reach a new period of reason?
(a) A period of art.
(b) The ability to forgive.
(c) A revolution.
(d) A new period of desire.

2. Describe what Rousseau felt the following did NOT do for human morals in regard to the arts and sciences.?
(a) Affect them.
(b) Worsen them.
(c) Improve them.
(d) Strengthen them.

3. What is tragic about an increasing knowledge, according to Rousseau?
(a) It takes humans away from the natural.
(b) It moves humans from their original state.
(c) It renders the human blind.
(d) It enables the human to question everything.

4. Why does Rousseau believe the arts and sciences are responsible for the fall and collapse of human's morality?
(a) They corrupt human thought.
(b) They corrupt human importance.
(c) They negate human reason.
(d) The improve well roundedness.

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

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

7. According to Rousseau, what ancient thinker praised ignorance?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Socrates.

8. What does Rousseau argue about the discovery of the nature man?
(a) There is direct evidence.
(b) It is odd and perplexing.
(c) It is natural and innate.
(d) There is no direct evidence.

9. What was the state of France, according to Rousseau, as a result of the introduction of the arts and sciences?
(a) The arts and sciences were only a luxury.
(b) They discovered that they were better off in their ignorance.
(c) The arts and sciences were a detrimental luxury.
(d) The needed the arts and sciences.

10. What does luxury generate according to "Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II"?
(a) Social classes.
(b) Power.
(c) Greed.
(d) Time wasted.

11. Which other civilizations were NOT mentioned by Rousseau as being impacted by the progress of art?
(a) Ancient Egypt.
(b) Rome.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Greece.

12. What can only be brought about by ignorance given its results according to Rousseau?
(a) Bliss.
(b) Political behavior.
(c) Moral behavior.
(d) Talent.

13. What should mans' response to the effects of art and science on society be, as described by Rousseau?
(a) Be humbled by it.
(b) Men should be humiliated by this.
(c) Be proud of it.
(d) Embrace it.

14. 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) Remedies.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Power.

15. 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"?
(a) Evil.
(b) Good.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Needed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say wise men do not chase?

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

3. Where did Rousseau analyze the effects of the arts and sciences on at the end of "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences. Part 1"?

4. What does Rousseau's "Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I" discuss about the correlation between the restoration of the arts and sciences and morality?

5. What type of rights does Rousseau want the cities in his State to have?

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