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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 2, The Creed of a Savoyard Priest.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau contrast with the active lifestyle?
(a) The sedentary lifestyle.
(b) The meditative lifestyle.
(c) The lifestyle of moderation.
(d) The military lifestyle.

2. How does Rousseau answer Emile's question about where babies come from?
(a) He refuses to answer the question until Emile is older.
(b) In polite euphemisms.
(c) Without describing sexual activity but without being deceitful.
(d) In explicit detail.

3. What did a career in the church offer the priest?
(a) Upward mobility.
(b) Fulfillment in God.
(c) Security from want.
(d) Peace from desire.

4. What proportion of children reached adulthood in Rousseau's time?
(a) All.
(b) Half.
(c) A quarter.
(d) Three quarters.

5. What is most relevant in deciding how or whether to punish a child?
(a) The spiritual dangers of the issue.
(b) The circumstances and the context of the infraction.
(c) The temperaments of the parent and the child.
(d) The rule or law at issue.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Rousseau rewarded for writing "Emile"?

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

3. What does the priest say will happen to the errors that sowed a person's alienation from religion?

4. What does Rousseau say a man should have learned in his first 25 years?

5. What does Rousseau urge people to avoid?

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