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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Rousseau recommend marriage for Emile?
(a) Whenever he falls in love with the right person.
(b) As soon as possible.
(c) Not until 30.
(d) Not until 35.

3. Why is Emile assigned a task by his tutor?
(a) Because his training will be incomplete until he has lost something dear to him.
(b) Because Sophy needs to know that she can rely on him.
(c) Because a man should not marry without a stable income.
(d) Because he is still immature, not ready for marriage emotionally.

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

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

6. What does Emile say he will need if he becomes independent of other men?
(a) Family.
(b) Nature.
(c) Steady work.
(d) Money.

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

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

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

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

11. What field did the priest explore after leaving the church?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Philology.
(d) Education.

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

13. What did a career in the church offer the priest?
(a) Upward mobility.
(b) Peace from desire.
(c) Fulfillment in God.
(d) Security from want.

14. How does Rousseau characterize his times?
(a) He says that his times are desperate, and good men will be needed to improve the health of nations.
(b) He says that there is more going on in his times than ever before in history.
(c) He says that his times are close to the end of time.
(d) He says that his times have become complacent, and need to be stimulated by enterprising men.

15. What benefit does Rousseau say can come from reading books?
(a) Broad experience.
(b) Intimacy with the divine.
(c) Great learning.
(d) Wealth and status.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What harm does Rousseau say books can do?

3. What will the principles the author recommends for Emile do for him?

4. What factor does Rousseau say has increased the need for government control?

5. What does Rousseau call democracy?

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