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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 1, Sophy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau explicate regarding selfishness?
(a) How it is created by teachers.
(b) How it is sown by passions.
(c) How it emerges naturally.
(d) How it is falling into laziness.

2. What does Sophy's name mean?
(a) Experience.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Power.
(d) Love.

3. What does Rousseau say about selfishness?
(a) That it is a stage everyone passes through.
(b) That it is healthy and natural.
(c) That it is the last stage of a man's growth.
(d) That it is a beast.

4. What kind of opinions does Rousseau seem to hold, as he talks about book learning?
(a) Reverential.
(b) Devotional.
(c) Anti-intellectual.
(d) Skeptical.

5. How can woman exercise cruelty in her turn, in Rousseau's opinion?
(a) By humiliating the man with her low behavior.
(b) By bringing another man's baby into the marriage.
(c) By giving her babies away for adoption.
(d) By making a man wonder who is visiting during the day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say is the rule for women?

2. What paradox does Rousseau observe in the relations of the sexes?

3. What change does a man experience at his second birth?

4. What is the ultimate goal of Rousseau's educational philosophy?

5. What does Rousseau say is the danger of books?

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