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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. How did Rousseau lose his apprenticeship?
(a) He got drunk one night.
(b) He returned home to care for his parents.
(c) He ran away.
(d) He was caught stealing.

2. How did the man to whom Rousseau was apprenticed treat Rousseau?
(a) Gently.
(b) Affectionately.
(c) Dispassionately.
(d) Violently.

3. What does Rousseau say is the danger of books?
(a) That they will lead to false belief.
(b) That they require one to read yet more books.
(c) That they do not all use the same meanings for words.
(d) That they will not educate the spirit.

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

5. What does the field of epistemology concern itself with?
(a) The realities behind the appearances we can see and measure.
(b) How we know what we know.
(c) The study of correspondence.
(d) The ideal forms behind the reality we experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Rousseau say selfishness is rooted?

2. What trade did Rousseau apprentice in?

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

4. What does Rousseau say he wants Emile to learn?

5. What kind of opinions does Rousseau seem to hold, as he talks about book learning?

(see the answer key)

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