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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau want Emile to respect in the relationship between men and women?
(a) The natural world in which men and women exist.
(b) The awe men and women can feel for the divine.
(c) The spirit that animates men and women alike.
(d) The differences that men and women harbor.

2. What is Rousseau's feeling about the disparity between men's and women's roles?
(a) That it is reasonable.
(b) That it is good and right.
(c) That it is harmful but inevitable.
(d) That it is lamentable.

3. What is the worst thing a man can think about in regard to his child, according to Rousseau?
(a) Wondering whether it is actually his.
(b) Wondering whether it will survive childhood.
(c) Wondering whether it will succeed.
(d) Wondering whether it will be good.

4. What does Rousseau say unites men and women?
(a) Self-loathing.
(b) Spiritual aspiration.
(c) Basic biology.
(d) Common humanity.

5. What does Rousseau describe as an influence on the differentiation between nations?
(a) Wars and crafts.
(b) Breeding and migrations.
(c) Geography and oceanography.
(d) Microclimates and fisheries.

6. What quality is necessary for any marriage to succeed, in Rousseau's opinion?
(a) Obedience.
(b) Romance.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Mutual affection.

7. Why is Emile assigned a task by his tutor?
(a) Because his training will be incomplete until he has lost something dear to him.
(b) Because Sophy needs to know that she can rely on him.
(c) Because a man should not marry without a stable income.
(d) Because he is still immature, not ready for marriage emotionally.

8. What will the principles the author recommends for Emile do for him?
(a) Butter his bread.
(b) Line his pockets.
(c) Serve as means to his ends.
(d) Stand him in good stead.

9. How does Rousseau describe being married?
(a) As "sharing the fruits of one's maturity."
(b) As "doing one's duty."
(c) As "returning to your original state."
(d) As "acting upon the passions of society."

10. What does Rousseau say is the particular challenge for women?
(a) How to keep the house clean while taking care of children.
(b) How to submit but also to stimulate.
(c) How to lead man to his own best interest.
(d) How to rule without seeming to rule.

11. What effect will marriage have on Emile?
(a) Weighing him down with responsibilities.
(b) Ameliorating his desires.
(c) Getting him out of his apprenticeship.
(d) Entering him into society.

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

13. How many important long-term relationships had Rousseau had by the time he wrote "Emile"?
(a) Two.
(b) Zero.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

14. What does the priest say will happen to the errors that sowed a person's alienation from religion?
(a) They will be mended by returning.
(b) They will be incorporated as tenets of mature faith.
(c) They will season faith with self-preserving skepticism.
(d) They will keep the faith pure of being followed too strictly.

15. What must Sophy and her parents determine in choosing a spouse for her?
(a) Whether she and the man are suited to each other.
(b) Whether the man is successful.
(c) Whether the man is wealthy.
(d) Whether the man is temperate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What paradox does Rousseau observe in the relations of the sexes?

2. What is Emile reminded to be, at the beginning of Book 4, Chapter 3, "Managing the Sexual Desires"?

3. What did a career in the church offer the priest?

4. What is the subject of Book 5, Chapter 2?

5. What subject does the author address in Book 4, Chapter 3?

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