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