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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 2, The Creed of a Savoyard Priest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say about the first 25 years of a man's life?
(a) They go quickly.
(b) They are the heart of a man's character.
(c) They have nothing to do with the next 25 years.
(d) That few people survive them.

2. Whom does Rousseau address directly in the section on submission?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Tutors.
(c) Gentlemen.
(d) Clergy.

3. Where does Rousseau say self-love is rooted?
(a) In excessive desire.
(b) In stifling education.
(c) In fear of the world.
(d) In self-awareness and natural affection.

4. What does the priest say does not work?
(a) Submission.
(b) Heresy.
(c) Faith.
(d) Apostasy.

5. What allows adolescents to reach a developmental peak in adolescence?
(a) The lack of sexual desire.
(b) The attainment of sexual maturity.
(c) The beginnings of sexual desire.
(d) The fluidity of sexual identification.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say an adolescent's new powers and experiences cause him or her to do?

2. What is Rousseau's ideal for child rearing?

3. Why does Rousseau say that children lack strength?

4. How did the priest enter the clergy?

5. Who tried to punish Rousseau for writing "Emile"?

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