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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke critiquing?
(a) Rousseau's relation with Frederick the Great.
(b) The rational basis of monarchy.
(c) People obsessed by material possession.
(d) The rational basis of natural law and religion.

2. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The Enlightenment.
(c) Changes in the Monarchy.
(d) Democracy.

3. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?
(a) Nature of man.
(b) Inequality between men and women.
(c) The oppression of the masses.
(d) Why philosophers are great.

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

5. What was the most popular form of government in Europe during Rousseau's time?
(a) Capitalism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Enlightened Despotism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?

2. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to reward people based on?

3. What does Rousseau argue enlightenment usually produces?

4. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?

5. What contradiction was Rousseau trying to illuminate?

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