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