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

2. What advice does Rousseau give to mothers?
(a) Care for the child's moral development above all.
(b) Confine the child's body in order to bring its soul into alignment with reason.
(c) Care for children physically to allow them to perceive correctly.
(d) Mortify the body in order to focus the will on the world of the spirit.

3. Which philosopher was Rousseau strongly influenced by?
(a) Plotinus.
(b) John Stuart Mill.
(c) Seneca.
(d) John Locke.

4. What kind of value should Sophy's skills have, in Rousseau's opinion?
(a) Theoretical value.
(b) Spiritual value.
(c) Economic value.
(d) Practical value.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Rousseau say a woman's status is highest?

3. How is Book 5, Chapter 2 different from the previous chapters?

4. How did Rousseau lose his apprenticeship?

5. What did the priest feel after he left the church?

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