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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 does Rousseau say is the trouble with being attractive to women?
(a) Making promises in love letters, which cannot be fulfilled.
(b) Getting into debt.
(c) Being hounded into actions one is not ready for.
(d) Being overwhelmed by strong emotions.

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

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

4. What kind of mother does Rousseau address himself to?
(a) Mothers who have traditions.
(b) Mothers who think for themselves.
(c) Mothers who follow the rules.
(d) Mothers who believe in God.

5. In what does Rousseau say selfishness is rooted?
(a) Comparison of the self with others.
(b) Resentment of childhood sexual trauma.
(c) Competition between facets of the self.
(d) Nostalgia for a prelapsarian state.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Rousseau suggest telling students about where babies come from?

3. In what sense does Rousseau say that children have strength?

4. What does Rousseau say is new for adolescents?

5. What does Rousseau say Emile has been protected from in his education?

(see the answer key)

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