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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 is it that allows an adolescent to exceed his limits?
(a) A strength he attains as the reward for competition against his peers.
(b) A strength he assumes by strict physical training.
(c) A strength that he did not know he had.
(d) A strength that had always been there, unused.

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

3. Who rewarded Rousseau for writing "Emile"?
(a) The common people.
(b) The clergy.
(c) The nobility.
(d) The aristocracy.

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

5. What is Rousseau's focus in Chapter 1, Book 3?
(a) Weakness and strength.
(b) Innocence and experience.
(c) Knowledge and ignorance.
(d) Truth and falsehood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what does Rousseau want to protect children?

3. What kind of background does Rousseau say he came from?

4. What is the customary view of children, according to Rousseau?

5. What does the priest urge Emile and the reader to do?

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