- 1. Which famous work did Rousseau write that begins with the line 'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains'?
A) Emile, or On Education
B) Confessions
C) Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men
D) The Social Contract
- 2. Rousseau's ideas greatly influenced which political movement?
A) Russian Revolution
B) French Revolution
C) American Revolution
D) Chinese Communist Revolution
- 3. According to Rousseau's philosophy, sovereignty should reside in which entity?
A) The Monarch
B) The Aristocracy
C) The General Will
D) The People
- 4. Rousseau believed that inequality arose with the establishment of what?
A) Religious Institutions
B) Private Property
C) Political Parties
D) Educational Systems
- 5. Which writer and philosopher was a contemporary of Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
A) Voltaire
B) Descartes
C) Kant
D) Locke
- 6. What term did Rousseau use to describe the collective will that aims at the common good?
A) Majority Rule
B) Popular Will
C) General Will
D) Individual Will
- 7. Rousseau argued that children should be educated according to their what?
A) Gender
B) Nature
C) Social Class
D) Parents' Will
- 8. Rousseau's work 'Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men' is also known as what?
A) First Discourse
B) Political Discourse
C) Social Discourse
D) Second Discourse
- 9. Rousseau had a significant influence on which later Romantic poet?
A) William Wordsworth
B) Lord Byron
C) John Keats
D) Percy Bysshe Shelley
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