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

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

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

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

5. What is the subject of Book 5, Chapter 2?
(a) The duties of a mother.
(b) The duties of a husband.
(c) The education of women.
(d) The responsibility of women.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rousseau recommend a man gain knowledge of different nations?

2. What are Sophy's skills?

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

4. How has Emile come to feel about Sophy as Book 5, Chapter 3 begins?

5. How does Rousseau characterize his times?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the priest urge Emile to do at the end of his discourse?

2. What does Rousseau say is the ideal age for marrying?

3. How does Rousseau describe Sophy's parents' marriage as they consider finding a marriage for Sophy?

4. What kind of religion does Rousseau urge on Emile?

5. What does Rousseau say is the challenge for women?

6. What does Rousseau say about democracy?

7. How does Emile react to the news that he and Sophy have to separate?

8. What does Rousseau say about men's and women's proper role and temperament?

9. What is it that the priest says will allow Emile to return to his childhood religion?

10. What does Rousseau say about when Emile should be married?

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