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