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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 advantage does physical activity confer on a student?
(a) Strength to overcome emotions.
(b) Hard-heartedness to face suffering.
(c) Patience to face loss.
(d) Vigor to face the threats in life.

2. What condition does the priest impose on his advice?
(a) Give yourself wholly to atheistic self-searching.
(b) Return to childhood religion, but with healthy skepticism.
(c) Remain skeptical about whatever religion--or irreligion--you take up.
(d) Return to childhood religion, but with the whole heart.

3. What is the ultimate goal of Rousseau's educational philosophy?
(a) A student who can observe the laws of the government and of the church.
(b) A student who can discern the difference between not knowing and ineffective grasps at knowledge.
(c) A student who can quote scripture for anything that happens, no matter how rare or unusual.
(d) A student who acts as a repository for facts and theories for the benefit of the society around him.

4. What does Rousseau say Emile can say at the end of each day?
(a) I know more.
(b) I am less afraid.
(c) I am stronger.
(d) I have more.

5. What kind of strength does Rousseau say adolescents attain?
(a) Moral.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Physical.
(d) Emotional.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who should have the power in a family?

2. How does Rousseau answer Emile's question about where babies come from?

3. What was the convention for authors of unconventional books in Europe?

4. What does Rousseau say supplies the greatest motivational force for a student?

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

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