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

2. What does Rousseau say man should study before he travels?
(a) The language of his destination.
(b) His fellow man.
(c) The history of the countries he travels to.
(d) His own roots and surroundings.

3. What is the purpose of Sophy in the education Rousseau is designing for Emile?
(a) To lead him on with the promise of consummation.
(b) To fire him with burning desire.
(c) To help him resist corruption.
(d) To distract him from spiritual things.

4. Where did the priest find that philosophers were exceptional?
(a) In defining truth in human experience.
(b) In creating phantoms and shibboleths.
(c) In finding words for experience of the divine.
(d) In arguing amongst themselves.

5. How did the priest enter the clergy?
(a) He bought his pastorate from a friend.
(b) He followed directions.
(c) He followed his own spiritual path.
(d) He bribed a bishop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rousseau say is cruel and unjust in a man's behavior?

2. How much work does Rousseau recommend for Emile?

3. What does Rousseau say people have, who have not traveled?

4. What is the worst thing a man can think about in regard to his child, according to Rousseau?

5. What does Rousseau call democracy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. To what does Rousseau attribute the differences between men and women?

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

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

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

8. What does Rousseau say are the benefits and dangers of book learning?

9. How does Rousseau say that the corruption of young grown men takes place?

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

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