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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did the priest enter the clergy?
(a) He followed directions.
(b) He bribed a bishop.
(c) He followed his own spiritual path.
(d) He bought his pastorate from a friend.

4. What metaphor does the priest use for the man who returns to his religion?
(a) Healing an injury.
(b) Finding eternal peace.
(c) Reconciling with family.
(d) Outfitting a ship for a voyage.

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

6. What quality is necessary for any marriage to succeed, in Rousseau's opinion?
(a) Obedience.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Romance.
(d) Mutual affection.

7. What is the subject of Book 5, Chapter 2?
(a) The responsibility of women.
(b) The education of women.
(c) The duties of a mother.
(d) The duties of a husband.

8. Who is at greatest risk in the courtship of Emile and Sophy?
(a) Sophy.
(b) Sophy's family.
(c) Emile.
(d) Emile's family.

9. How had Rousseau raised his children?
(a) With kindness but insistence on obedience..
(b) With strict morals.
(c) He had given them up for adoption.
(d) In tight-fitting clothes.

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

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

12. What does the author offer to the reader of Book 4, Chapter 2?
(a) Examples for their resumption of prayers.
(b) Rewards for their devotion.
(c) Guidance for their skepticism.
(d) Sympathy for their troubles.

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

14. What value must Sophy's parents protect for her before she is married?
(a) Her beauty.
(b) Her purity.
(c) Her innocence.
(d) Her social status.

15. How does Rousseau change his stance about marriage as Book 4, Chapter 3 goes on?
(a) He says that marriage can lead to God.
(b) He says that marriage is not always a return to virtue.
(c) He says that premature marriage is not ideal.
(d) He says that marriage can often be a vice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does woman submit to man, in Rousseau's opinion?

2. How does Rousseau characterize his times?

3. How does the exposition shift at the beginning of Book 4, Chapter 3?

4. What does Rousseau say ensures interdependence of man and woman?

5. What does Rousseau say is cruel and unjust in a man's behavior?

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