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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Rousseau say that children lack strength?
(a) Because they have not exercised enough.
(b) Because they have not been fed well.
(c) Because they have been subjected to book learning.
(d) Because they are compared with adults.

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

3. What does Rousseau say about self-love?
(a) It is the goal of growth.
(b) It is healthy and natural.
(c) It is a beast.
(d) It is a necessary stage.

4. What does Rousseau say is the source of inner conflict?
(a) The tension between morality of the body on one hand and immortality of works on the other.
(b) The tension between physical existence on one hand and spiritual existence on the other.
(c) The tension between free will on one hand and limitation on the other.
(d) The tension between needs and desires on one hand and social conformity on the other.

5. What is Rousseau's ideal for child rearing?
(a) Instill self-reliance as the solution to inner conflicts.
(b) Instill obedience as the solution to inner conflicts.
(c) Make children aware of their inner conflicts.
(d) Do away with inner conflicts.

6. What does Rousseau explicate regarding selfishness?
(a) How it emerges naturally.
(b) How it is created by teachers.
(c) How it is falling into laziness.
(d) How it is sown by passions.

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

8. What does Rousseau say supplies the greatest motivational force for a student?
(a) Threat of punishment.
(b) Promise of reward.
(c) Interest.
(d) Fear of humiliation

9. What is most relevant in deciding how or whether to punish a child?
(a) The rule or law at issue.
(b) The spiritual dangers of the issue.
(c) The circumstances and the context of the infraction.
(d) The temperaments of the parent and the child.

10. What additional factor allows a child to exceed his limits?
(a) The child's geographical location.
(b) The child's culture.
(c) The child's education.
(d) The child's temperament.

11. What is it that allows an adolescent to exceed his limits?
(a) A strength that had always been there, unused.
(b) A strength he assumes by strict physical training.
(c) A strength that he did not know he had.
(d) A strength he attains as the reward for competition against his peers.

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

13. What argument does Rousseau use to support his emphasis on the need for physical activity in children?
(a) He refers to studies that have been conducted.
(b) He appeals to the reader's common sense.
(c) He cites philosophers who agree with him.
(d) He refutes philosophers' claims to the contrary.

14. What change does a man experience at his second birth?
(a) Sexual desire.
(b) The ability to reason.
(c) Facial hair and a deeper voice.
(d) The ability to hold complex ideas.

15. In what sense does Rousseau say that children have strength?
(a) They are strong because they do not have self-doubts.
(b) They are strong because they have not been exposed to evil yet.
(c) They are strong because they can understand tough concepts.
(d) They are strong when they are compared with other children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Rousseau say he wants Emile to learn?

3. What does the field of epistemology concern itself with?

4. Who begins to have an influence on the child after the mother has weaned the boy?

5. What does Rousseau say is new for adolescents?

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