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