Jean-Jacques Rousseau Multiple Choice Questions
1. Rousseau’s famous work “Emile” was on which topic?
A. Politics
B. Economy
C. Society
D. Education
Answer: D. Education
2. Who believed that human beings are naturally amoral (not immoral) and asocial (not antisocial)?
A. Hobbes
B. Locke
C. Rousseau
D. Filmer
Answer: C. Rousseau
3. In one of his essays, Rousseau writes that the “Human Association are due largely to the accidents of nature”. The essay is?
A. First Discourse
B. Second Discourse
C. On the Origin of Languages
D. The Social Contract
Answer: C. On the Origin of Languages
4. Who was the intellectual father of the French Revolution?
A. Rousseau
B. John Locke
C. Kant
D. Sarter
Answer: A. Rousseau
5. Rousseau’s life span was?
A. 1711-1778
B. 1710-1778
C. 1712-1778
D. 1721-1778
Answer: C. 1712-1778
6. “The Social Contract” by Rousseau was published in?
A. 1759
B. 1760
C. 1762
D. 1761
Answer: D. 1761
7. The nation-state was promised upon the consolidated and centralization of
A. Democracy
B. Rule of Law
C. Liberty
D. Power
Answer: D. Power
8. The modern concept of sovereignty would have been inconceivable without the reality of
A. Parliament
B. Natural Law
C. Nation-State
D. Constitutionalism
Answer: C. Nation-State
9. Initially modern political theorists perceived no problem inherent in the rejection of the
A. Romantic Tradition
B. Jacobian Tradition
C. Reformation
D. Classical Tradition
Answer: D. Classical Tradition
10. Who has laid the foundation of contemporary political thought?
A. Locke
B. Filmer
C. Hobbes
D. Rousseau
Answer: D. Rousseau
11. The separation of ethics and Politics emphasizes power as the organizational basis of
A. Authority
B. Constitution
C. Civil Society
D. State
Answer: D. State
15. What is the significance of the year 1789 in modern political history?
A. American Revolution
B. Dawn of Democracy
C. French Revolution
D. Separation of State and Church
Answer: D. Separation of State and Church
16. The measures taken by the constituted French National Assembly increasingly isolated from major segments of the society
A. The King and his monarchy
B. The third estate of France
C. The State General of France
D. The Clergy from nobility
Answer: C. The State General of France
17. The nations that defeated Napoleon in 1815 formed a
A. Monarchical Alliance
B. Nobel Alliance
C. Holy Alliance
D. Political Alliance
Answer: C. Holy Alliance