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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of opinions does Rousseau seem to hold, as he talks about book learning?
(a) Reverential.
(b) Skeptical.
(c) Anti-intellectual.
(d) Devotional.

3. If someone published under his/her own name, what question did he/her confront?
(a) Whether their family would disown them.
(b) Whether readers would write to them personally.
(c) Whether their social superiors would punish or reward them.
(d) Whether the people in their city would acknowledge or shun them.

4. Against what does Rousseau warn teachers?
(a) Simplifying the truth.
(b) Dishonesty with their students.
(c) Consorting with their students.
(d) Giving students too much freedom.

5. What does Rousseau say an adolescent's new powers and experiences cause him or her to do?
(a) Submit to authorities.
(b) Speak with new authority.
(c) Chafe against constraints.
(d) Discover new laws.

6. Which student does Rousseau say will learn quickest?
(a) The student motivated by desire to know.
(b) The student motivated by the threat of parental judgment.
(c) The student motivated by competition with fellow students.
(d) The student motivated by selfishness.

7. What does the field of epistemology concern itself with?
(a) The study of correspondence.
(b) The ideal forms behind the reality we experience.
(c) How we know what we know.
(d) The realities behind the appearances we can see and measure.

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

9. What does Rousseau say is the danger of books?
(a) That they will lead to false belief.
(b) That they will not educate the spirit.
(c) That they require one to read yet more books.
(d) That they do not all use the same meanings for words.

10. Whom does Rousseau address in Chapter 1, Book 3?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Adolescents.
(c) Children.
(d) Infants.

11. What does Rousseau say children are working within as they attain their strength?
(a) Their times.
(b) The spectrum of ancient knowledge.
(c) Their inherent innocence.
(d) Their own range and mode.

12. What is the ultimate goal of Rousseau's educational philosophy?
(a) A student who acts as a repository for facts and theories for the benefit of the society around him.
(b) A student who can quote scripture for anything that happens, no matter how rare or unusual.
(c) A student who can observe the laws of the government and of the church.
(d) A student who can discern the difference between not knowing and ineffective grasps at knowledge.

13. With what tone does Rousseau open Book 4 Chapter 1?
(a) Energetic lamentation.
(b) Passionate accusation.
(c) Powerful exhortation.
(d) Reasoned explanation.

14. Who rewarded Rousseau for writing "Emile"?
(a) The common people.
(b) The clergy.
(c) The nobility.
(d) The aristocracy.

15. What kind of background does Rousseau say he came from?
(a) Openly sensual.
(b) Libertine.
(c) Chaste.
(d) Conservative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau urge people to avoid?

2. What trade did Rousseau apprentice in?

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

4. What advice does Rousseau give to mothers?

5. Which philosopher was Rousseau strongly influenced by?

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