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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau want to know about the "strong"?
(a) How they came to serve the weak.
(b) Why they serve the weak.
(c) Who serves the strong.
(d) Why they do not serve the weak.

2. How does Rousseau think the gods will react to people forming a more perfect union?
(a) They will smile on them.
(b) They will bless them.
(c) They will teach them.
(d) They will curse them.

3. What does Rousseau feel differing forms of government result in?
(a) Different outlooks.
(b) Different desires.
(c) Different levels of inequality.
(d) Different motivators.

4. What did some individuals grow rich enough for as a result of inventions?
(a) Indulgence.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Governing.

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

6. According to Rousseau, what is the outcome of man's labor?
(a) Nothing.
(b) More greed.
(c) Continual suffrage.
(d) More resources.

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

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

9. What leads to sex for man, according to Rousseau?
(a) Lust.
(b) Natural sentiment.
(c) Love.
(d) Carnal desire.

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

11. What does philosophy do?
(a) Broadens the human.
(b) Isolates the human.
(c) Enlightens the human.
(d) Introverts the human.

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

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

14. According to Rousseau, what do passions allow for the human?
(a) Degeneration.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Fears and dreams.
(d) Improvement of reason.

15. What does nature tell humans?
(a) Do good for himself.
(b) Be kind.
(c) Preserve the land.
(d) Preserve his strength.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Rousseau believe inequality came?

3. According to Rousseau, what was life of man limited to before his interests grew?

4. Which of the following are NOT the natural enemies of mankind, mentioned in "Chapter 4, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part One"?

5. What does Rousseau think humans are called to in "Chapter 6, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Appendix"?

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