Forgot your password?  
| | | | | |
  Sign up for your free account today!  

Emile | Quiz

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This Study Guide consists of approximately 38 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Emile.

Emile | Quiz

Students: Take our free Emile quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Teachers: The BookRags Lesson Plan contains hundreds of test and quiz questions, including multiple choice, short answer, and essay questions. Create your own quiz or test with our automatic test generator, or choose from our ready-to-go chapter quizzes, midterm tests, and final exams. Don’t waste time reinventing the wheel, get the Lesson Plan today!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

1)

What does the adolescent's strength allow him to do? (from Book 3, Book 3 : Chapter 1, Book 3)

Complete a masterpiece and enter a trade.
Understand human nature.
Compete with adults.
Exceed earlier limits.
2)

How does Rousseau recommend a man gain knowledge of different nations? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 3, Emile Grows More Mature)

By traveling there for at least a month.
By knowing a sufficient number of their members.
By traveling there for a year.
By reading as many books as possible.
3)

With what tone does Rousseau open Book 4 Chapter 1? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 1, Manhood)

Energetic lamentation.
Passionate accusation.
Reasoned explanation.
Powerful exhortation.
4)

What does Rousseau say is new for adolescents? (from Book 3, Book 3 : Chapter 1, Book 3)

Perception and judgment.
Knowledge and fear.
Desire and family.
Passions and humility.
5)

In what does Rousseau say selfishness is rooted? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 1, Manhood)

Nostalgia for a prelapsarian state.
Resentment of childhood sexual trauma.
Comparison of the self with others.
Competition between facets of the self.
6)

What did the priest feel after he left the church? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 2, The Creed of a Savoyard Priest)

Liberation and happiness.
Speculation and doubt.
Fear and nostalgia.
Desire and self-loathing.
7)

How does Rousseau characterize his times? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 3, Emile Grows More Mature)

He says that his times are desperate, and good men will be needed to improve the health of nations.
He says that his times are close to the end of time.
He says that his times have become complacent, and need to be stimulated by enterprising men.
He says that there is more going on in his times than ever before in history.
8)

What does Rousseau call democracy? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 3, Emile Grows More Mature)

The tyranny of the masses.
Rule by the poor.
A condition with more magistrates than citizens.
Death by committee.
9)

How did the priest enter the clergy? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 2, The Creed of a Savoyard Priest)

He bribed a bishop.
He followed his own spiritual path.
He bought his pastorate from a friend.
He followed directions.
10)

What observation does Rousseau make about the world in the beginning of Book 4 Chapter 1? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 1, Manhood)

How much knowledge there is to acquire.
How much money there is to be made.
How much sorrow there is in the world.
How much potential there is in man.
11)

Where do the differences between men's and women's roles originate, in Rousseau's opinion? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 1, Sophy)

In women's conspiracies against each other.
In men's competition with each other.
In a conspiracy against women.
In nature.
12)

What condition does the priest impose on his advice? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 2, The Creed of a Savoyard Priest)

Return to childhood religion, but with the whole heart.
Remain skeptical about whatever religion--or irreligion--you take up.
Return to childhood religion, but with healthy skepticism.
Give yourself wholly to atheistic self-searching.
13)

Where does Rousseau say self-love is rooted? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 1, Manhood)

In fear of the world.
In self-awareness and natural affection.
In stifling education.
In excessive desire.
14)

What kind of feeling does Rousseau want to create in Emile with regard to Sophy? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 2, Sophy Cont.)

The right sense of a good woman.
The moral sense to shun a corrupt woman.
The aesthetic sense to value a beautiful woman.
The ethical sense to know a moral woman.
15)

What does Rousseau say an adolescent's new powers and experiences cause him or her to do? (from Book 3, Book 3 : Chapter 1, Book 3)

Discover new laws.
Submit to authorities.
Speak with new authority.
Chafe against constraints.
16)

What does Rousseau say unites men and women? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 1, Sophy)

Common humanity.
Self-loathing.
Spiritual aspiration.
Basic biology.
17)

What stage of marriage are Sophy's parents in by the times they are preparing Sophy for marriage? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 2, Sophy Cont.)

The first stage of their love is long gone, but it has sustained them.
They have grown indifferent to each other, but work together for their daughter.
They are still very much in the first throes of love.
They renew their love for each other every few years.
18)

What kind of religion does Rousseau urge upon Emile? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 3, Managing the Sexual Desires)

Libertine religion.
Laissez-faire religion.
Natural religion.
Conservative devotion.
19)

What task does Emile's tutor assign, which he must complete before Emile can marry? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 3, Emile Grows More Mature)

Emile must complete his apprenticeship.
Emile must go away and make himself worthy.
Emile must make a lot of money.
Emile must know other women.
20)

How long does Emile plan to travel for? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 3, Emile Grows More Mature)

Six weeks.
Two years.
Six months.
A year.
21)

What did a career in the church offer the priest? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 2, The Creed of a Savoyard Priest)

Fulfillment in God.
Peace from desire.
Security from want.
Upward mobility.
22)

What topic does Rousseau treat at the end of Book 4, Chapter 3? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 3, Managing the Sexual Desires)

Corruption.
Religion.
Sexuality.
Disease.
23)

What does the priest say does not work? (from Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 2, The Creed of a Savoyard Priest)

Heresy.
Submission.
Apostasy.
Faith.
24)

What does Rousseau say is the rule for men? (from Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 1, Sophy)

Quest after elevated things.
Know yourself.
Be strong and active.
Overcome yourself.
25)

What does Rousseau say Emile has been protected from in his education? (from Book 3, Book 3 : Chapter 1, Book 3)

Wanting what was beyond his grasp.
Knowing his strength.
Knowing evil.
Being satisfied with what he has.
Copyrights
Emile from BookRags and Gale's For Students Series. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.
Follow Us on Facebook
Homework Help