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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do men learn to repress as a result of jealousy, according to Rousseau?
(a) Their overall emotions.
(b) Their heated emotions.
(c) Their natural emotions.
(d) Their irrational emotions.

3. What does Rousseau think humans are called to in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?
(a) Perfection and stability.
(b) Happiness and perfection.
(c) Happiness and wealth.
(d) Perfection and wealth.

4. What does Rousseau say separates the sensation of the savage from simple knowledge?
(a) A gulf.
(b) A universe.
(c) An ocean.
(d) A bridge.

5. What does Rousseau believe divides a repressed man?
(a) Instinct and reflex.
(b) Amore-propre and primitive emotions.
(c) Reflex and emotions.
(d) Carnal and natural desire.

6. What was man's second feeling, according to Rousseau?
(a) His breath.
(b) His existence.
(c) Crying.
(d) Self preservation.

7. According to Rousseau, what do men have that is difficult to control?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Desire.
(c) Anger.
(d) Instincts.

8. What does Rousseau believe follows the heels of metallurgy and agriculture?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Freeedom.
(c) Freedom and instinct.
(d) Slavery and misery.

9. Where does Rousseau question language evolved from?
(a) In religious mediations.
(b) In the savage and animal.
(c) Through prayer.
(d) Between the parent and child.

10. Where does Rousseau believe speech arose from?
(a) Between dad and child.
(b) The property phenomenon.
(c) Out of necessity.
(d) Between mom and child.

11. According to Rousseau, what does moral inequality clash with?
(a) Human law.
(b) Natural right.
(c) Human rights.
(d) Natural law.

12. What does "A Discourse on Inequality" of Rousseau's focus on aside from morality?
(a) Political equality.
(b) Results of inequality.
(c) The outcome of equality.
(d) Detriment.

13. Where do people begin to crowd as luxury grows, according to Rousseau?
(a) The country.
(b) The West.
(c) Cities.
(d) China.

14. How many types of inequality does Rousseau see among humans in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

15. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?
(a) Sensation.
(b) Survival.
(c) Reproduction.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does society subsist according to Rousseau?

2. What does Rousseau mention men differ in as common character starts to develop within the human?

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

4. What do humans owe many of their ideas to?

5. What did the poor become, according to Rousseau?

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