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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rousseau say science produces war?
(a) Because it leads to better economy.
(b) Because it makes nations jealous of each other.
(c) Because it leads to better men.
(d) Because it leads to new weapons.

2. What does Rousseau say sciences does not improve?
(a) Morals.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Riches.
(d) Intelligence.

3. What should academies organize society around?
(a) What knowledge different class should have.
(b) Family heritage.
(c) Clans.
(d) Riches.

4. What reflects in the science it helped produce?
(a) Processes.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Evil.

5. What were Hobbes, Spinoza and Locke trying to avoid when they were building their theories?
(a) Metaphysical disputes.
(b) Displeasing the King.
(c) Having the same theory as Rousseau.
(d) Discussion about the law of nature.

6. What does Rousseau say arts and sciences have aided the suppression of?
(a) Monarchy.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Evil.
(d) Intelligence.

7. How does Rousseau qualify the relationship between the restrictions imposed by arts and sciences and their influence on society?
(a) Paradoxical.
(b) A thing of the past.
(c) Crumbling.
(d) Immutable.

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

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

10. What does Rousseau say men came to love?
(a) Religion.
(b) The restriction imposed by arts and sciences.
(c) Arts.
(d) Sciences.

11. What does Rousseau argue science often begins with in Chapter 2?
(a) Need for new weapons.
(b) Desire for power.
(c) Superstition.
(d) Lack of knowledge.

12. What displays apparent contradiction between virtue and enlightenment according to Rousseau in the First Discourse?
(a) Monarchy and prisons.
(b) Government and philosophy.
(c) Despotism and freedom.
(d) Sciences and arts.

13. What is needed by the law according to Rousseau?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Judges.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Justice.

14. What are the growing illegalities based on according to Rousseau?
(a) The social political make-up of the time.
(b) Country of origin.
(c) Birth.
(d) Talents of men.

15. What does Rousseau say might result only in ignorance?
(a) Moral behavior.
(b) Studying art.
(c) Blindly following the philosophers.
(d) Bad education

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau argue generates physics?

2. What does Rousseau say is the reason for the increase he saw in France?

3. What civilizations does Rousseau use to demonstrate his point on morality?

4. Why do men separate themselves according to Rousseau?

5. What does Rousseau say science inherently is?

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