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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 was the dominant idea in Europe when Rousseau wrote "Emile"?
(a) That knowledge comes from God.
(b) That knowledge is innate.
(c) That knowledge comes from the senses.
(d) That all knowledge is just remembering.

2. What does Rousseau say is the purpose of education?
(a) Giving children a sense of their potential.
(b) Giving children a sense of their innate damnation.
(c) Giving children a sense of their limitations.
(d) Giving children a sense of their own innate divinity.

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

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

5. What proportion of children reached adulthood in Rousseau's time?
(a) Half.
(b) Three quarters.
(c) A quarter.
(d) All.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Rousseau say selfishness is rooted?

2. Whom does Rousseau address in Chapter 1, Book 3?

3. What was Rousseau's father's trade?

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

5. What additional factor allows a child to exceed his limits?

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