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