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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • 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) Russian Revolution
C) French Revolution
D) Chinese Communist Revolution
  • 3. According to Rousseau's philosophy, sovereignty should reside in which entity?
A) The General Will
B) The Monarch
C) The Aristocracy
D) The People
  • 4. Rousseau believed that inequality arose with the establishment of what?
A) Religious Institutions
B) Educational Systems
C) Private Property
D) Political Parties
  • 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) Locke
C) Voltaire
D) Descartes
  • 7. Rousseau had a significant influence on which later Romantic poet?
A) Lord Byron
B) Percy Bysshe Shelley
C) William Wordsworth
D) John Keats
  • 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) Second Discourse
D) Social Discourse
  • 9. Rousseau argued that children should be educated according to their what?
A) Gender
B) Nature
C) Parents' Will
D) Social Class
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