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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 suppose concerning men at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) They are fully developed.
(b) They know how to read.
(c) They have the power to change things.
(d) They are smart.

2. What do not have regular form according to Rousseau?
(a) Monarchies.
(b) Totalitarian governments.
(c) Democratic governments.
(d) Early governments.

3. What did the man who invented property rights found according to Rousseau in Chapter 5?
(a) Society.
(b) Law school.
(c) Banks.
(d) Tribunals.

4. What does Rousseau want his countrymen to submit to?
(a) The law.
(b) His wisdom.
(c) Their ideals.
(d) France.

5. What does Rousseau say about the interests of the ruler and the people in the perfect city he would choose as birthplace?
(a) They are united.
(b) The interests of the ruler are more important.
(c) The interests of the people are more important.
(d) They are different.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose view does Rousseau say is wrong concerning the state of nature?

2. What is man capable of doing according to Rousseau?

3. Who does Rousseau say is wrong to think that because men have no natural sense of good that they must be wicked?

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

5. How does Rousseau want to live his life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rousseau desire about law and the people?

2. What does Rousseau begin by supposing in Chapter 4?

3. What natural enemies does man have, according to Rousseau?

4. What does Rousseau argue about humanity at the end of Chapter 3?

5. What is the savage man's nature?

6. What does Rousseau discuss during his analysis of the metaphysical or moral side of man?

7. How does Rousseau proceed in his discussion on the state of nature?

8. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?

9. What does Rousseau believe about those who create property rights in Chapter 5?

10. What do humans owe their ideas to, according to Rousseau?

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