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

2. How does Rousseau suggest we see childhood?
(a) As a perfect state in itself.
(b) As the goal for all men's development.
(c) As a time in itself.
(d) As a stage in the man's development.

3. What does the field of epistemology concern itself with?
(a) The realities behind the appearances we can see and measure.
(b) How we know what we know.
(c) The ideal forms behind the reality we experience.
(d) The study of correspondence.

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

5. What additional factor allows a child to exceed his limits?
(a) The child's culture.
(b) The child's education.
(c) The child's temperament.
(d) The child's geographical location.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Rousseau address in Chapter 1, Book 3?

2. How does Rousseau define a happy life?

3. What advice does Rousseau give to mothers?

4. What was the convention for authors of unconventional books in Europe?

5. What does Rousseau explicate regarding selfishness?

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