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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 3, Managing the Sexual Desires.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the priest describe the period after he left the church?
(a) As one of the most disturbing periods of his life.
(b) As the beginning of his enjoyment of life.
(c) As the end of his love for life.
(d) As the beginning of his true faith and wisdom.

3. Whom does Rousseau address in Chapter 1, Book 3?
(a) Children.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Infants.
(d) Adolescents.

4. What did the priest feel after he left the church?
(a) Speculation and doubt.
(b) Desire and self-loathing.
(c) Fear and nostalgia.
(d) Liberation and happiness.

5. What advice does Rousseau give to mothers?
(a) Rear their children near their schools.
(b) Never let the children outside.
(c) Rear their children in the country.
(d) Hire a nanny for the child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rousseau contrasts book learning with what kind of learning?

2. How does Rousseau suggest telling students about where babies come from?

3. What condition does the priest impose on his advice?

4. What does the author of the introduction suggest was the reason for the success of "Emile" as a book?

5. What had the priest in "The Creed of a Savoyard Priest" chapter lost when he left priesthood?

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