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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Book 4 : Chapter 3, Managing the Sexual Desires.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What does Rousseau say a man should have learned in his first 25 years?
(a) How to work in a craft.
(b) How to defend himself.
(c) How to use his time.
(d) How to manage his passions.

4. What is Rousseau's focus in Chapter 1, Book 3?
(a) Truth and falsehood.
(b) Weakness and strength.
(c) Knowledge and ignorance.
(d) Innocence and experience.

5. What does Rousseau say about selfishness?
(a) That it is a stage everyone passes through.
(b) That it is the last stage of a man's growth.
(c) That it is healthy and natural.
(d) That it is a beast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the dominant idea in Europe when Rousseau wrote "Emile"?

2. What does Rousseau say is the purpose of education?

3. What does Rousseau recommend for Emile concerning sexual experience?

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

5. What does Rousseau recommend mothers should give up?

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