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

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

3. How was Rousseau rewarded for writing "Emile"?
(a) With public holidays.
(b) With entitlements and privileges.
(c) With money and reputation.
(d) With land and secured income.

4. How does Rousseau believe physical activity affects perception?
(a) He believes it attunes students to spiritual perception.
(b) He believes it teaches students to feel their emotions.
(c) He believes it suppresses disruptive emotions.
(d) He believes it sharpens perception.

5. Why did the priest feel that he had lost his entire religion?
(a) He saw himself as too corrupt to be a believer.
(b) He was excommunicated by a strict bishop.
(c) He saw it as a whole, and his ideas about sex did not fit.
(d) He refused to believe in a religion founded on falsehoods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say about the first 25 years of a man's life?

2. What does Rousseau say children are working within as they attain their strength?

3. Against what does Rousseau warn teachers?

4. What condition does the priest impose on his advice?

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

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