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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say about self-love?
(a) It is healthy and natural.
(b) It is a necessary stage.
(c) It is a beast.
(d) It is the goal of growth.

2. What example does Rousseau use for teaching Emile to read?
(a) The tutor left notes around for Emile and Emile wanted to read them.
(b) The tutor told Emile that he would be rewarded if he learned to read.
(c) The tutor cajoled Emile with praise and gifts.
(d) The tutor threatened to humiliate Emile if he did not know his letters.

3. What is Rousseau's focus in Chapter 1, Book 3?
(a) Knowledge and ignorance.
(b) Innocence and experience.
(c) Weakness and strength.
(d) Truth and falsehood.

4. What was the official perception of "Emile"?
(a) Rousseau was being disobedient to the rulers of France.
(b) Rousseau was committing treason.
(c) Rousseau was challenging common sense.
(d) Rousseau was encouraging readers to break the law.

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

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

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

8. What kind of background does Rousseau say he came from?
(a) Chaste.
(b) Libertine.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Openly sensual.

9. What does Rousseau say a man should have learned in his first 25 years?
(a) How to use his time.
(b) How to manage his passions.
(c) How to work in a craft.
(d) How to defend himself.

10. What does the adolescent's strength allow him to do?
(a) Understand human nature.
(b) Compete with adults.
(c) Exceed earlier limits.
(d) Complete a masterpiece and enter a trade.

11. What observation does Rousseau make about the world in the beginning of Book 4 Chapter 1?
(a) How much potential there is in man.
(b) How much knowledge there is to acquire.
(c) How much money there is to be made.
(d) How much sorrow there is in the world.

12. How does Rousseau suggest telling students about where babies come from?
(a) Say that they come from a stork, or another mythic beast.
(b) Say that they come from woman's body, with difficulty for the woman.
(c) Say that they come from the fertilization of an egg by a man's sperm.
(d) Say that they come from God.

13. How old was Rousseau when he wrote "Emile"?
(a) In his 50s.
(b) In his 30s.
(c) In his 40s.
(d) In his 60s.

14. What does Rousseau say about the first 25 years of a man's life?
(a) That few people survive them.
(b) They go quickly.
(c) They are the heart of a man's character.
(d) They have nothing to do with the next 25 years.

15. What does Rousseau say is the source of inner conflict?
(a) The tension between morality of the body on one hand and immortality of works on the other.
(b) The tension between needs and desires on one hand and social conformity on the other.
(c) The tension between free will on one hand and limitation on the other.
(d) The tension between physical existence on one hand and spiritual existence on the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rousseau say self-love is rooted?

2. What is it that allows an adolescent to exceed his limits?

3. What kind of strength does Rousseau say adolescents attain?

4. Who tried to punish Rousseau for writing "Emile"?

5. What trade did Rousseau apprentice in?

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