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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Dedication and Preface.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) The riches of the bourgeois.
(b) The power of the noblemen.
(c) Arts.
(d) Riches, vice and oppression.

2. What does Rousseau say sciences does not improve?
(a) Riches.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Morals.

3. What power does Rousseau want the citizens of the cities to be able to do?
(a) To make their own laws.
(b) To live in peace.
(c) To create their own art.
(d) To live outside the city.

4. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences restrict?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Ability to think.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Wisdom.

5. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Patience.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Morality.
(d) Knowledge of what is beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can what Rousseau say fell apart survive under?

2. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to submit to?

3. What does Rousseau say preceded what men are coming to?

4. How does Rousseau want to live his life?

5. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?

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