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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 1, Manhood.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what sense does Rousseau say that children have strength?
(a) They are strong because they can understand tough concepts.
(b) They are strong because they have not been exposed to evil yet.
(c) They are strong because they do not have self-doubts.
(d) They are strong when they are compared with other children.

3. Where does Rousseau say self-love is rooted?
(a) In stifling education.
(b) In fear of the world.
(c) In excessive desire.
(d) In self-awareness and natural affection.

4. What does Rousseau say changes the effects of women on young men?
(a) Existential despair.
(b) Hormonal flushes.
(c) Love poetry.
(d) Violent rages.

5. Who begins to have an influence on the child after the mother has weaned the boy?
(a) The siblings.
(b) The nanny.
(c) The tutor.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rousseau contrasts book learning with what kind of learning?

2. What does Rousseau recommend for children, along with physical activity?

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

4. How did the man to whom Rousseau was apprenticed treat Rousseau?

5. Why does Rousseau say that children lack strength?

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