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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say children are working within as they attain their strength?
(a) Their times.
(b) Their inherent innocence.
(c) Their own range and mode.
(d) The spectrum of ancient knowledge.

2. What does Rousseau say he wants Emile to learn?
(a) Discipline.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Virtue.

3. What does Rousseau say is the particular challenge for women?
(a) How to lead man to his own best interest.
(b) How to rule without seeming to rule.
(c) How to submit but also to stimulate.
(d) How to keep the house clean while taking care of children.

4. What does the priest say will happen to the errors that sowed a person's alienation from religion?
(a) They will be incorporated as tenets of mature faith.
(b) They will be mended by returning.
(c) They will season faith with self-preserving skepticism.
(d) They will keep the faith pure of being followed too strictly.

5. What change does a man experience at his second birth?
(a) The ability to reason.
(b) Sexual desire.
(c) Facial hair and a deeper voice.
(d) The ability to hold complex ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the official perception of "Emile"?

2. How does Rousseau change his stance about marriage as Book 4, Chapter 3 goes on?

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

4. What does the adolescent's strength allow him to do?

5. Whom does Rousseau address directly in the section on submission?

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