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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 is the consequence of too many slips in the child-rearing process?
(a) The child becomes a tyrant.
(b) The child becomes a coward.
(c) The child becomes too obedient.
(d) The child becomes well adjusted.

2. How does the exposition shift at the beginning of Book 4, Chapter 3?
(a) Rousseau resumes the discourse.
(b) The watchmaker takes over the discourse.
(c) Rousseau interjects that he is leaving the discourse.
(d) The priest takes a threatening tone.

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

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

5. What does the priest say does not work?
(a) Apostasy.
(b) Faith.
(c) Heresy.
(d) Submission.

Short Answer Questions

1. What single subject is Book 4, Chapter 2 devoted to?

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

3. What does Rousseau contrast with the active lifestyle?

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

5. What does Rousseau say an adolescent's new powers and experiences cause him or her to do?

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