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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 falling into laziness.
(d) How it is sown by passions.

2. What topic does Rousseau treat at the end of Book 4, Chapter 3?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Disease.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Religion.

3. What does Rousseau say is the purpose of education?
(a) Giving children a sense of their limitations.
(b) Giving children a sense of their own innate divinity.
(c) Giving children a sense of their potential.
(d) Giving children a sense of their innate damnation.

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

5. Which philosopher does Rousseau cite by name in the section on Submission?
(a) Kant.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Fleury.
(d) Hume.

Short Answer Questions

1. What single subject is Book 4, Chapter 2 devoted to?

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

3. What kind of approach does Rousseau advocate for parents when their children are hurt?

4. What does Rousseau say is new for adolescents?

5. What is the customary view of children, according to Rousseau?

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