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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does inequality of wealth and condition produce?

2. What do differing forms of government result from according to Rousseau?

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

4. What type of government arises when inequality is the weakest?

5. What does Rousseau say binds the poor and gives the rich new power?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does nature give man?

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

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

5. How does Chapter 3 open?

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

7. What is the savage man's nature?

8. What does Rousseau lament in Chapter 3?

9. What happens as men acquire more?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rousseau introduces amour propre as self-preservation or acute awareness of oneself. Discuss and analyze Rousseau's discussion of amour propre in an essay and use the text to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Rousseau's view of suffering as discussed in Chapter 6 and examine both the causes and effects of suffering. Students should use the text to support their statements.

Essay Topic 3

In the Preface, Rousseau quotes Aristotle and says "What is natural has to be investigated not in begins that are depraved, but in those that are good according to nature." In an essay, discuss the idea of nature and how it may justify inequality. Use the text to support your discussion.

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