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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 1, Manhood.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of clothing does Rousseau prefer for children?
(a) Greek tunics.
(b) Clothing reinforced with whalebone.
(c) Roman robes.
(d) Loose-fitting.

2. What distinction does epistemology seek to make?
(a) Between what is material and what is spirit.
(b) Between what is real and what is imaginative.
(c) Between what is true and what is false.
(d) Between what is eternal and what is particular.

3. How did the man to whom Rousseau was apprenticed treat Rousseau?
(a) Gently.
(b) Dispassionately.
(c) Violently.
(d) Affectionately.

4. What does Rousseau say changes the effects of women on young men?
(a) Love poetry.
(b) Violent rages.
(c) Hormonal flushes.
(d) Existential despair.

5. What does Rousseau say children are working within as they attain their strength?
(a) Their times.
(b) The spectrum of ancient knowledge.
(c) Their inherent innocence.
(d) Their own range and mode.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Rousseau's childhood household like?

2. What does Rousseau say about self-love?

3. How does Rousseau say selfishness is ever satisfied?

4. What does Rousseau say supplies the greatest motivational force for a student?

5. What is Rousseau's focus in Chapter 1, Book 3?

(see the answer key)

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