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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Rousseau reject the notion of natural law?
(a) We do not yet know the nature of man.
(b) He wants to contradict all the thinkers of his time.
(c) His royalty backers don't like the concept.
(d) Locke favors it.

3. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to reward people based on?
(a) Birth.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Fortune.
(d) Appearance.

4. What are the two laws of nature and natural right according to Rousseau?
(a) Physical nature and the king is always right.
(b) Physical nature and irrational man.
(c) Physical nature and rational man.
(d) Rational man and irrational nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the preface of the Second Discourse say philosophers must focus on?

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

3. What is the First Discourse about according to the Introduction?

4. What is best represented by the "Philosophes"?

5. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?

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