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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau say humanity possessed even before the advent of art?
(a) Paintings.
(b) Knowledge of what is beautiful.
(c) Morality.
(d) Patience.

3. What does Rousseau argue about the the society in which he was living in the First Discourse?
(a) It is morally depraved.
(b) It is as perfect as it can be.
(c) It has high moral standards.
(d) It is on the brink of chaos.

4. What does Rousseau say is the reason for the increase he saw in France?
(a) Men left their ignorance behind.
(b) The bourgeois extended their hold on the economy.
(c) Art has become easily accessible.
(d) Sciences made people want more.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau argue the arts force men to recognize?

2. What did the "philosophes" think would happen to a society where false beliefs wither?

3. How would artists feel if they were to work amongst those who hate their work according to Rousseau?

4. Where was Rousseau born according to the Introduction?

5. What does Rousseau say the increase of knowledge helps generate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are three main influences on Rousseau's work, according to the Introduction?

2. What does Rousseau argue about philosophers?

3. What examples does Rousseau offer in his demonstration of how progress produced corruption?

4. According to the Introduction, what has Jean-Jacques Rousseau inspired?

5. What is at the heart of Rousseau's philosophy, according to the Introduction?

6. What does Rousseau argue about his society according to the Introduction?

7. What does Rousseau state about artists?

8. What alarming consequences does science have, according to Chapter 2?

9. How does Rousseau depict men of today?

10. What does Rousseau believe about the growing size of society?

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