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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say a state should not have any desire for?
(a) Power.
(b) Conquest.
(c) Governance.
(d) Making people happy.

2. Who does Rousseau say does not exhibit conditions to the same degree as modern man?
(a) Savages.
(b) Ancient men.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

3. Who tells the human to do good for himself and as little evil as he can to others?
(a) The law.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Nature.
(d) God.

4. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to retain?
(a) Their art.
(b) Their right to ignore the law.
(c) Their banks.
(d) Their democracy.

5. What is Rousseau using the dedication for?
(a) Thanks for his riches.
(b) Thanks for being so generous.
(c) Thanks for the chance to think about the origin of inequality.
(d) Thanks for his birth.

6. What has the power to disrupt society regularly?
(a) Love.
(b) A revolution.
(c) War.
(d) The law.

7. What does Rousseau encourage the youth to look forward to?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Mild pleasures.
(d) Political power.

8. What is man's second feeling according to Rousseau?
(a) Love.
(b) Desire.
(c) Envy.
(d) Self-preservation.

9. What does the human owe many of their ideas to according to Rousseau?
(a) Art.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Speech.
(d) Chance.

10. What does Rousseau claim people can look at to discover the current nature of humanity?
(a) His writings.
(b) Books.
(c) The political system of Switzerland.
(d) Contemporary historical events.

11. What should be equal if talents are equal according to Rousseau?
(a) Riches.
(b) Love.
(c) Property.
(d) Art.

12. What philosopher insists men always fight?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Hobbes.
(c) Locke.
(d) Rousseau.

13. How do people see the weak according to Rousseau?
(a) In power.
(b) As ignorant.
(c) People try to not to see them.
(d) Enslaved.

14. What does Rousseau say of the process that makes men both wicked and sociable?
(a) It could have occurred in many ways.
(b) It can be reverted.
(c) It is recent.
(d) It occurs every day.

15. What does Rousseau want his rulers to consider?
(a) France's needs.
(b) The people's needs.
(c) Rousseau's needs.
(d) Hobbes' ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say would have been prevented if someone called on the lies of the man who invented property rights?

2. What does Rousseau say about relating the different types of inequality?

3. What does Rousseau ignore that he says is acquired through a long process?

4. What can magistrates easily usurp according to Rousseau?

5. Who theorizes that political authority originates with the father?

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