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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, Book 3 : Chapter 1, Book 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which student does Rousseau say will learn quickest?
(a) The student motivated by desire to know.
(b) The student motivated by competition with fellow students.
(c) The student motivated by selfishness.
(d) The student motivated by the threat of parental judgment.

5. What advice does Rousseau give to mothers?
(a) Rear their children in the country.
(b) Never let the children outside.
(c) Rear their children near their schools.
(d) Hire a nanny for the child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say is the purpose of education?

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

3. What does Rousseau say is the source of inner conflict?

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

5. What does the author of the introduction suggest was the reason for the success of "Emile" as a book?

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