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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Emile reminded to be, at the beginning of Book 4, Chapter 3, "Managing the Sexual Desires"?
(a) Obedient and submissive.
(b) Skeptical and cunning.
(c) Ambitious and assertive
(d) Humble and honest.

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

3. What is the worst thing a man can think about in regard to his child, according to Rousseau?
(a) Wondering whether it will survive childhood.
(b) Wondering whether it will be good.
(c) Wondering whether it is actually his.
(d) Wondering whether it will succeed.

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

5. How does Rousseau recommend a man gain knowledge of different nations?
(a) By reading as many books as possible.
(b) By traveling there for at least a month.
(c) By knowing a sufficient number of their members.
(d) By traveling there for a year.

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

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

8. Why does Sophy fend Emile off during their courtship?
(a) For the sake of her sanity.
(b) For the sake of her honor.
(c) For the sake of preserving her innocence.
(d) For the sake of heightening the expectations for the wedding.

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

10. What topic does Rousseau treat at the end of Book 4, Chapter 3?
(a) Disease.
(b) Religion.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Corruption.

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

12. How much work does Rousseau recommend for Emile?
(a) Enough to prevent him thinking about sin.
(b) Not too much to tire him.
(c) Enough to tire him.
(d) So much that he has no free time.

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

14. How does Emile feel when his tutor assigns him the task that must be completed before he can marry?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Daunted.
(c) Displeased.
(d) Eager.

15. What is Rousseau's religious perspective as he advises Emile?
(a) Atheist.
(b) Agnostic.
(c) Protestant.
(d) Converted Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What harm does Rousseau say books can do?

2. What did the priest feel after he left the church?

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

4. What does the priest say does not work?

5. What stage of marriage are Sophy's parents in by the times they are preparing Sophy for marriage?

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