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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Book 2 : Chapter 2, Submission.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Rousseau have?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 0.
(d) 4.

2. If someone published under his/her own name, what question did he/her confront?
(a) Whether their family would disown them.
(b) Whether the people in their city would acknowledge or shun them.
(c) Whether readers would write to them personally.
(d) Whether their social superiors would punish or reward them.

3. What does Rousseau say he wants Emile to learn?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Ignorance.

4. What did Rousseau require in order to obtain Emile's submission at the end of the Early Childhood section?
(a) Resistance to the child's will.
(b) Physical force.
(c) Reasonable persuasion.
(d) Righteous anger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the man to whom Rousseau was apprenticed treat Rousseau?

2. What kind of opinions does Rousseau seem to hold, as he talks about book learning?

3. Who begins to have an influence on the child after the mother has weaned the boy?

4. What does the field of epistemology concern itself with?

5. What was the dominant idea in Europe when Rousseau wrote "Emile"?

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