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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 innate ability allows a child to exceed his limits?
(a) The ability to read.
(b) The ability to discern right from wrong.
(c) The ability to learn from experience.
(d) The ability to take responsible actions.

2. What allows adolescents to reach a developmental peak in adolescence?
(a) The fluidity of sexual identification.
(b) The attainment of sexual maturity.
(c) The lack of sexual desire.
(d) The beginnings of sexual desire.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which student does Rousseau say will learn quickest?

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

4. What does Rousseau urge people to avoid?

5. What was the official perception of "Emile"?

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