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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Rousseau say a woman's status is highest?
(a) In the birthing room as a midwife.
(b) In a woman's job.
(c) In any man's job.
(d) In the nursery as a mother.

4. What is Rousseau's feeling about the disparity between men's and women's roles?
(a) That it is harmful but inevitable.
(b) That it is lamentable.
(c) That it is reasonable.
(d) That it is good and right.

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

6. How does Rousseau describe being married?
(a) As "returning to your original state."
(b) As "sharing the fruits of one's maturity."
(c) As "doing one's duty."
(d) As "acting upon the passions of society."

7. What practice does Rousseau say degrades women?
(a) Marrying a man.
(b) Taking in other women's children.
(c) Giving their children up for adoption.
(d) Working in men's professions.

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

9. What saddened the priest after he left the church?
(a) The years he had wasted in celibacy.
(b) The obedience he had submitted to.
(c) The restrictions he had placed himself under.
(d) The ignorance he discovered in himself.

10. 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 season faith with self-preserving skepticism.
(c) They will be incorporated as tenets of mature faith.
(d) They will be mended by returning.

11. What does Rousseau warn against with regard to desire?
(a) Fulfilling desire.
(b) Dividing desire.
(c) Ignoring desire.
(d) Channeling desire.

12. What does Rousseau say is the rule for women?
(a) Overcome yourself.
(b) Bear children and be a good wife.
(c) Know yourself.
(d) Arouse strength and activity in men.

13. What does the priest urge Emile and the reader to do?
(a) Find the right religion.
(b) Never settle for one religion's answers.
(c) Commit himself blindly to one faith and follow it.
(d) Return to childhood religion.

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

15. What does Rousseau want Emile to respect in the relationship between men and women?
(a) The spirit that animates men and women alike.
(b) The differences that men and women harbor.
(c) The awe men and women can feel for the divine.
(d) The natural world in which men and women exist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What field did the priest explore after leaving the church?

3. How will the right amount of work affect Emile?

4. Who is at greatest risk in the courtship of Emile and Sophy?

5. What single subject is Book 4, Chapter 2 devoted to?

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