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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Rousseau use to counterbalance the potential good of modernity?
(a) The potential for democracy to fail.
(b) The potential for modernity to annihilate itself.
(c) The potential for the kings of Europe to crush any philosophical movement.
(d) The potential for modernity to revert to savagery.

3. What follows the spread of knowledge according to the First Discourse?
(a) Chaos.
(b) Riches.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Corruption.

4. What is the First Discourse about according to the Introduction?
(a) Monarchy is a good government.
(b) An attack on Locke.
(c) Popular enlightenment corrupts morals.
(d) Frederick the Great's accomplishments.

5. What does Rousseau say at the end of Chapter 1 might contradict virtue?
(a) Sciences.
(b) Education.
(c) Religion.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say men came to love?

2. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?

3. What does Rousseau argue enlightenment usually produces?

4. What does Rousseau say that the men will soon require?

5. What displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?

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