Emile Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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Emile Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, Book 2 : Chapter 2, Submission.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distinction does epistemology seek to make?
(a) Between what is real and what is imaginative.
(b) Between what is eternal and what is particular.
(c) Between what is true and what is false.
(d) Between what is material and what is spirit.

2. What example does Rousseau use for teaching Emile to read?
(a) The tutor told Emile that he would be rewarded if he learned to read.
(b) The tutor threatened to humiliate Emile if he did not know his letters.
(c) The tutor left notes around for Emile and Emile wanted to read them.
(d) The tutor cajoled Emile with praise and gifts.

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

4. What does the field of epistemology concern itself with?
(a) The ideal forms behind the reality we experience.
(b) The realities behind the appearances we can see and measure.
(c) The study of correspondence.
(d) How we know what we know.

5. How does Rousseau suggest we see childhood?
(a) As a stage in the man's development.
(b) As the goal for all men's development.
(c) As a time in itself.
(d) As a perfect state in itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say he wants Emile to learn?

2. Who begins to have an influence on the child after the mother has weaned the boy?

3. Who tried to punish Rousseau for writing "Emile"?

4. What is most relevant in deciding how or whether to punish a child?

5. What proportion of children reached adulthood in Rousseau's time?

(see the answer key)

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