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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 is Rousseau concerned about in the treatment of the topic of Chapter 1?
(a) The difficulty of being fair.
(b) Being unfair means favoring the arts.
(c) The arguments for and against are the same.
(d) The difficulty of being accurate.

2. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to recognize?
(a) The greatness of their leaders.
(b) Talent.
(c) Their piety.
(d) Their own weakness.

3. What does Rousseau say of the needs and goals of the society compared to that of the government?
(a) They are always the same.
(b) The needs of the government trump the ones of the people.
(c) The people should require that his needs be taken into account.
(d) They might not be the same.

4. What does Rousseau argue about the the society in which he was living in the First Discourse?
(a) It has high moral standards.
(b) It is on the brink of chaos.
(c) It is as perfect as it can be.
(d) It is morally depraved.

5. How can what Rousseau say fell apart survive under?
(a) Law and government.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Religion.
(d) His guidance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does science prevent the production of according to Rousseau?

2. Who should the law rule in Rousseau's perfect city?

3. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?

4. Who is Chapter 3 dedicated to?

5. What did the "philosophes" think would happen to a society where false beliefs wither?

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