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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term 'lover' mean as Rousseau applies it to Emile and Sophy?
(a) They have already consummated their relationship.
(b) They are engaged.
(c) They are pregnant.
(d) They are considering marrying.

2. Why did the priest feel that he had lost his entire religion?
(a) He saw it as a whole, and his ideas about sex did not fit.
(b) He was excommunicated by a strict bishop.
(c) He refused to believe in a religion founded on falsehoods.
(d) He saw himself as too corrupt to be a believer.

3. What effect will marriage have on Emile?
(a) Weighing him down with responsibilities.
(b) Entering him into society.
(c) Getting him out of his apprenticeship.
(d) Ameliorating his desires.

4. What does Rousseau say is the particular challenge for women?
(a) How to rule without seeming to rule.
(b) How to keep the house clean while taking care of children.
(c) How to submit but also to stimulate.
(d) How to lead man to his own best interest.

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

6. What does Sophy's name mean?
(a) Experience.
(b) Power.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Love.

7. What does Rousseau say is the rule for men?
(a) Know yourself.
(b) Be strong and active.
(c) Quest after elevated things.
(d) Overcome yourself.

8. What kind of value should Sophy's skills have, in Rousseau's opinion?
(a) Practical value.
(b) Economic value.
(c) Theoretical value.
(d) Spiritual value.

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

10. What must Sophy and her parents determine in choosing a spouse for her?
(a) Whether the man is successful.
(b) Whether the man is wealthy.
(c) Whether she and the man are suited to each other.
(d) Whether the man is temperate.

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

12. What kind of love does Emile's father recommend?
(a) Love that fades slowly into partnership.
(b) Love that deepens and matures without being satiated.
(c) Love that is consummated in death.
(d) Love that leads to overwhelming sensations of satiation.

13. Why does woman submit to man, in Rousseau's opinion?
(a) Because of woman's greater understanding.
(b) Because of man's greater strength.
(c) Because of woman's tendency to irrationality.
(d) Because of man's greater capacity for reason.

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

15. How has Emile come to feel about Sophy as Book 5, Chapter 3 begins?
(a) Ardent.
(b) Devoted.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Concupiscent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which impulse does Emile's father say Emile should be motivated by in his marriage?

2. What field did the priest explore after leaving the church?

3. Against what kind of trap does Rousseau warn Emile?

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

5. How long does Emile plan to travel for?

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