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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, Book 5 : Chapter 3, Emile Grows More Mature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau say unites men and women?
(a) Common humanity.
(b) Self-loathing.
(c) Spiritual aspiration.
(d) Basic biology.

2. What kind of religion does Rousseau urge upon Emile?
(a) Conservative devotion.
(b) Libertine religion.
(c) Natural religion.
(d) Laissez-faire religion.

3. What did Rousseau require in order to obtain Emile's submission at the end of the Early Childhood section?
(a) Reasonable persuasion.
(b) Physical force.
(c) Righteous anger.
(d) Resistance to the child's will.

4. What saddened the priest after he left the church?
(a) The restrictions he had placed himself under.
(b) The years he had wasted in celibacy.
(c) The ignorance he discovered in himself.
(d) The obedience he had submitted to.

5. Where did the priest find that philosophers were exceptional?
(a) In creating phantoms and shibboleths.
(b) In defining truth in human experience.
(c) In arguing amongst themselves.
(d) In finding words for experience of the divine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What balance does Rousseau try to strike in his child rearing?

2. What kind of background does Rousseau say he came from?

3. What kind of strength does Rousseau say adolescents attain?

4. What does Rousseau say supplies the greatest motivational force for a student?

5. What are Sophy's skills?

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