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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 is needed by arts according to Rousseau?
(a) Riches.
(b) Museums.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Paint.

2. What does science prevent the production of according to Rousseau?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Worldly goods.
(c) Good leader.
(d) Good men.

3. What do people accept in Rousseau's perfect city?
(a) To be treated fairly.
(b) The state ruling authority.
(c) Rousseau's wisdom.
(d) Art.

4. What does Rousseau say are divided between amour-propre and primitive emotions?
(a) Good men.
(b) Women.
(c) Repressed men.
(d) Children.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which place does the Dedication praise as a virtuous republic?

3. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?

4. What does Rousseau wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?

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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