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

2. How does the exposition shift at the beginning of Book 4, Chapter 3?
(a) The priest takes a threatening tone.
(b) Rousseau interjects that he is leaving the discourse.
(c) Rousseau resumes the discourse.
(d) The watchmaker takes over the discourse.

3. Why had the priest become a priest?
(a) His parents had seen it as a good career.
(b) He had been raised in a church orphanage.
(c) He had to choose between the church and the military.
(d) He had wandered the world until he heard a calling.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Emile assigned a task by his tutor?

2. How does Rousseau change his stance about marriage as Book 4, Chapter 3 goes on?

3. What does Rousseau describe as an influence on the differentiation between nations?

4. What does the author offer to the reader of Book 4, Chapter 2?

5. Why did the priest feel that he had lost his entire religion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the priest describe the reconciliation when someone returns to his or her childhood religion?

3. What does Emile's father tell Emile about sexual fidelity in men and women?

4. What form of education does Rousseau imagine that will help Emile resist the possibility of corruption?

5. What does Rousseau say about travel?

6. What does Rousseau say about the conflict between the sexes?

7. What is Rousseau's perspective when he writes about sexual desire in Book 4, Chapter 3?

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

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

10. What does Rousseau say about how much Emile should be worked, and how he should be worked?

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