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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 not preserve liberty according to Rousseau?
(a) Alienating one's liberty.
(b) The state.
(c) The king.
(d) His theory.

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

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

4. How many types of inequality does Rousseau see in Chapter 4?
(a) 5 types.
(b) 2 types.
(c) 3 types.
(d) 8 types.

5. What does Rousseau say of the needs and goals of the society compared to that of the government?
(a) They might not be the same.
(b) They are always the same.
(c) The people should require that his needs be taken into account.
(d) The needs of the government trump the ones of the people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do not have regular form according to Rousseau?

2. What does the savage man constantly focuses on?

3. What did the man who invented property rights found according to Rousseau in Chapter 5?

4. What principle does Rousseau think is an extremely important idea in his theory of the person?

5. What do people accept in Rousseau's perfect city?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?

2. What does Rousseau claim about the rich or the wealthy?

3. What is the savage man's nature?

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

5. What are the two types of inequality among humans presented by Rousseau in Chapter 4?

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

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

8. What does philosophy do?

9. How does Chapter 3 open?

10. What happens as men acquire more?

(see the answer keys)

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