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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Part Two.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?
(a) Moral behavior.
(b) Studying art.
(c) Blindly following the philosophers.
(d) Bad education
2. What does Rousseau think arises out of the property phenomenon?
(a) Art.
(b) Rulers.
(c) Banks.
(d) Speech.
3. What does Rousseau say of the increasing knowledge in relation to the original state of man?
(a) It nurtures it.
(b) It destroys it.
(c) It make it better.
(d) It obscures it.
4. What type of government does Rousseau say has no rationale and is against nature?
(a) Oligarchy.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Republic.
(d) Hereditary monarchy.
5. What does Rousseau say of the needs and goals of the society compared to that of the government?
(a) They might not be the same.
(b) They are always the same.
(c) The needs of the government trump the ones of the people.
(d) The people should require that his needs be taken into account.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
2. Who tells the human to do good for himself and as little evil as he can to others?
3. How does Rousseau want to live his life?
4. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?
5. What does Rousseau say would have been prevented if someone called on the lies of the man who invented property rights?
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