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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rousseau contrast with the active lifestyle?
(a) The meditative lifestyle.
(b) The military lifestyle.
(c) The lifestyle of moderation.
(d) The sedentary lifestyle.

2. What does Rousseau say children are working within as they attain their strength?
(a) The spectrum of ancient knowledge.
(b) Their inherent innocence.
(c) Their times.
(d) Their own range and mode.

3. What does Rousseau explicate regarding selfishness?
(a) How it is sown by passions.
(b) How it emerges naturally.
(c) How it is falling into laziness.
(d) How it is created by teachers.

4. What does Rousseau say is new for adolescents?
(a) Passions and humility.
(b) Knowledge and fear.
(c) Desire and family.
(d) Perception and judgment.

5. How was Rousseau helped in establishing a career?
(a) By support from his parents.
(b) By his relationships with women.
(c) By support from the deans at the Sorbonne.
(d) By support from a mentor and benefactor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author of the introduction suggest was the reason for the success of "Emile" as a book?

2. What does the field of epistemology concern itself with?

3. Against what does Rousseau warn teachers?

4. What is Rousseau's focus in Chapter 1, Book 3?

5. What kind of strength does Rousseau say adolescents attain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the motivational power Rousseau attributes to interest.

2. Why does Rousseau assert the need for honesty with respect to Emile, the student?

3. How does Rousseau say that ignorance helps perception?

4. How does Rousseau say a child can be managed without interest?

5. How was "Emile" received?

6. What does Rousseau say about the first 25 years of life?

7. What does Rousseau mean when he says that he wants children to learn ignorance?

8. What does Rousseau say has a corrupting effect on men?

9. What kind of strength does Rousseau want to engender in a child?

10. What does Rousseau say a child's first educational experience should be?

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