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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 are engaged.
(b) They have already consummated their relationship.
(c) They are considering marrying.
(d) They are pregnant.

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

3. What kind of feeling does Rousseau want to create in Emile with regard to Sophy?
(a) The moral sense to shun a corrupt woman.
(b) The ethical sense to know a moral woman.
(c) The aesthetic sense to value a beautiful woman.
(d) The right sense of a good woman.

4. At what age should Sophy's parents prepare her for marriage?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

5. What does Rousseau say ensures interdependence of man and woman?
(a) Woman's need for reason.
(b) Woman's usefulness as a tool to men's work.
(c) Man's need for spiritual symbols in his life.
(d) Man's dependence on woman.

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

7. What does Rousseau recommend for Emile concerning sexual experience?
(a) He recommends he enter the clerisy.
(b) He recommends he gather experience before marriage.
(c) He recommends he remain a virgin until marriage.
(d) He recommends he follow his own leanings.

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

9. What is Sophy like before she becomes Emile's ideal wife?
(a) A mother.
(b) A nun.
(c) A good daughter.
(d) A humble worker.

10. How many important long-term relationships had Rousseau had by the time he wrote "Emile"?
(a) Two.
(b) Zero.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

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

12. How does the priest describe the period after he left the church?
(a) As one of the most disturbing periods of his life.
(b) As the beginning of his enjoyment of life.
(c) As the beginning of his true faith and wisdom.
(d) As the end of his love for life.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What saddened the priest after he left the church?

2. What led to the priest's downfall as a priest?

3. When does Rousseau recommend marriage for Emile?

4. What kinds of skills does Rousseau say Sophy should have as a young woman?

5. How does Rousseau explain the relations of the sexes?

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