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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau call democracy?
(a) The tyranny of the masses.
(b) Death by committee.
(c) Rule by the poor.
(d) A condition with more magistrates than citizens.

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

3. What does the priest say will happen to the errors that sowed a person's alienation from religion?
(a) They will keep the faith pure of being followed too strictly.
(b) They will be mended by returning.
(c) They will be incorporated as tenets of mature faith.
(d) They will season faith with self-preserving skepticism.

4. What does Rousseau say man should study before he travels?
(a) His own roots and surroundings.
(b) The language of his destination.
(c) The history of the countries he travels to.
(d) His fellow man.

5. What subject does the author address in Book 4, Chapter 3?
(a) Morality.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Religion.

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

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

8. How does Rousseau explain the relations of the sexes?
(a) As master (or mistress) and slave.
(b) As warring opposites.
(c) As equals competing for superiority.
(d) As complementary differences.

9. What had the priest in "The Creed of a Savoyard Priest" chapter lost when he left priesthood?
(a) His virtue.
(b) His virginity.
(c) His certainty.
(d) His faith.

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

11. Against what kind of trap does Rousseau warn Emile?
(a) Demanding devotions.
(b) Excessive dogmas.
(c) Expensive offerings.
(d) Insufficiently rigorous faith.

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

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

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

15. Which impulse does Emile's father say Emile should be motivated by in his marriage?
(a) Duty.
(b) Awe.
(c) Humility.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author offer to the reader of Book 4, Chapter 2?

2. What does Rousseau say unites men and women?

3. What quality is necessary for any marriage to succeed, in Rousseau's opinion?

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

5. How has Emile come to feel about Sophy as Book 5, Chapter 3 begins?

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