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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why had the priest become a priest?
(a) His parents had seen it as a good career.
(b) He had to choose between the church and the military.
(c) He had wandered the world until he heard a calling.
(d) He had been raised in a church orphanage.

2. What is the purpose of Sophy in the education Rousseau is designing for Emile?
(a) To fire him with burning desire.
(b) To help him resist corruption.
(c) To lead him on with the promise of consummation.
(d) To distract him from spiritual things.

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

4. What stage of marriage are Sophy's parents in by the times they are preparing Sophy for marriage?
(a) They have grown indifferent to each other, but work together for their daughter.
(b) They renew their love for each other every few years.
(c) The first stage of their love is long gone, but it has sustained them.
(d) They are still very much in the first throes of love.

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

6. How will the right amount of work affect Emile?
(a) It will mitigate his desires.
(b) It will keep his digestion regular.
(c) It will make him sleep soundly.
(d) It will make his mind receptive.

7. What kinds of skills does Rousseau say Sophy should have as a young woman?
(a) Skills she will no longer need as a wife.
(b) Skills that will be useful when she is a mother.
(c) Skills that will become talents in time.
(d) Diplomatic skills.

8. What single subject is Book 4, Chapter 2 devoted to?
(a) Epistemology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Religion.
(d) Sexuality.

9. What condition does the priest impose on his advice?
(a) Return to childhood religion, but with healthy skepticism.
(b) Remain skeptical about whatever religion--or irreligion--you take up.
(c) Give yourself wholly to atheistic self-searching.
(d) Return to childhood religion, but with the whole heart.

10. What are Sophy's skills?
(a) She is an empathetic listener.
(b) She is a good cook.
(c) She is good with her hands.
(d) She is well read in philosophy.

11. What does Rousseau warn against with regard to desire?
(a) Dividing desire.
(b) Fulfilling desire.
(c) Channeling desire.
(d) Ignoring desire.

12. How is Book 5, Chapter 2 different from the previous chapters?
(a) It is theoretical again.
(b) It tells a long hypothetical story.
(c) It speaks frankly from Rousseau's life experience.
(d) It gives more detailed advice.

13. What does Rousseau want Emile to respect in the relationship between men and women?
(a) The natural world in which men and women exist.
(b) The differences that men and women harbor.
(c) The spirit that animates men and women alike.
(d) The awe men and women can feel for the divine.

14. How does Rousseau say Sophy should be able to take care of her children?
(a) Caring for their physical needs.
(b) Tending to their souls.
(c) Plotting out their education.
(d) Listening to their problems.

15. How does Rousseau describe being married?
(a) As "doing one's duty."
(b) As "returning to your original state."
(c) As "acting upon the passions of society."
(d) As "sharing the fruits of one's maturity."

Short Answer Questions

1. What benefit does Rousseau say can come from reading books?

2. What does Rousseau say man should study before he travels?

3. What does Rousseau call democracy?

4. What does Rousseau say is the rule for women?

5. What is Emile reminded to be, at the beginning of Book 4, Chapter 3, "Managing the Sexual Desires"?

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