Rousseau had a number of detractors among whom Rousseau himself should the included. What was the title of his seemingly candid autobiography?

Related Mcqs:

1. “Really I think that the poorest he that is in England bath a life, as the greatest he, and therefore truly, sir, I think it is clear that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under the government, and I do think that the poorest ram in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to the Government that he bath not had a voice to put himself under”. The statement argues for

   A. Rule according to the consent of the governed
   B. Rule of the poor
   C. Expropriation of the rich
   D. Distribution of wealth equally to all

2. The Abbaside Caliph al-Qaim appointed him as the Chief justice (Qazi-ul-Qazat) of his Government and he refused the offer saying that there were far abler people who deserve the title much more than himself. Who was that saintly philosopher?

   A. Al-Farabi
   B. Al-Ghazali
   C. Al-Mawardi
   D. None of these

3. In Rousseau’s writings he argued for a humane and loving approach to children. How could his relationship with his own children be characterized?

   A. Loving and supportive
   B. He was childless
   C. Stormy at times but generally positive
   D. He placed the five children he produced with his mistress in orphanages

4. Who of the following said that ‘rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek in general to be himself at his best’?

   A. Laski
   B. Marx
   C. Spencer
   D. Rousseau
   E. Montesquieu

5. Who said “Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek in general, to be himself of his best”?

   A. Hobbes
   B. Laski
   C. Aristotle
   D. Rousseau

6. How does Rousseau describe man in his primal natural state?

   A. A Noble Savage
   B. Solitary, nasty and brutish
   C. A blank slate
   D. Totally corrupted

7. Rousseau felt that social living corrupted us leading to such ills as private property and social classes. Which of the following is his famous phrase arising from this reasoning?

   A. Workers of the world unite
   B. Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest
   C. Put the child in his place and keep him there
   D. Man was born free, but he is everywhere in chains

8. Rousseau believed that man in the “state of nature” was naturally good. Still he admitted that a true state of nature probably existed except as an ideal, a standard for comparison. His mothod for dealing with this discrepancy between reality and theory was to:

   A. “Lay the facts aside, as they do not affect the question.”
   B. He blamed a maid and remained silent when she was punished
   C. He immediately confessed
   D. He ran awa but not before returning the stolen items

9. Rousseau advocated his theory of Social Contract in the book:

   A. Social Contract
   B. Origin of the Species
   C. Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
   D. Modern State

10. The President of U.S.A. can keep a bill passed by the Congress with himself for a period of:

    A. 10 days
    B. 15 days
    C. 20 days
    D. 30 days