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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences, Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is needed by history according to Rousseau?
(a) Good philosophers.
(b) Tyrants and war.
(c) Many libraries.
(d) Historians.

3. What does Rousseau think artistic progress produces?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Riches.
(d) Happiness.

4. What does Rousseau argue generates physics?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Revenge.
(c) Idleness.
(d) Greed.

5. What does Rousseau say men can do in the present?
(a) Appreciate arts.
(b) Deceive.
(c) Understand sciences.
(d) Read Rousseau's book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of society increased according to Rousseau?

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

3. How does Rousseau qualify what humanity possessed even before the advent of art?

4. When did Rousseau die?

5. What is Rousseau concerned about in the treatment of the topic of Chapter 1?

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