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