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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 wonder is improved or undermined by restoring the arts and sciences?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Values.
(d) Morality.

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

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

4. What does Rousseau say the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences do?
(a) Make untalented people famous.
(b) Make despotic governments bearable.
(c) Make people think.
(d) Make people civilized.

5. What does Rousseau say increased in France?
(a) The riches of the bourgeois.
(b) Arts.
(c) The power of the noblemen.
(d) Riches, vice and oppression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fell apart according to Rousseau?

2. How many sections does the Introduction say the Second Discourse has?

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

4. What Saint influenced Rousseau's vision?

5. What question does Rousseau try to answer about society?

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