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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. How can woman exercise cruelty in her turn, in Rousseau's opinion?
(a) By giving her babies away for adoption.
(b) By making a man wonder who is visiting during the day.
(c) By humiliating the man with her low behavior.
(d) By bringing another man's baby into the marriage.

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

3. What must Sophy and her parents determine in choosing a spouse for her?
(a) Whether the man is successful.
(b) Whether the man is temperate.
(c) Whether the man is wealthy.
(d) Whether she and the man are suited to each other.

4. What does Rousseau say is cruel and unjust in a man's behavior?
(a) To give children up for adoption.
(b) To fail to ensure a woman's safety.
(c) To reduce woman to a spiritual symbol.
(d) To force a woman to raise children.

5. What factor does Rousseau say has increased the need for government control?
(a) Innovations in weaponry.
(b) Inoculations.
(c) Steam engines and railroads.
(d) Increase in population.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic does Rousseau treat at the end of Book 4, Chapter 3?

2. What practice does Rousseau say degrades women?

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

4. What kinds of skills does Rousseau say Sophy should have as a young woman?

5. What led to the priest's downfall as a priest?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the priest describe his feelings about leaving the church?

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

7. Why does Rousseau aim to foster restraint in Emile?

8. What skills in particular does Rousseau say Sophy should possess?

9. What does Rousseau say about how long man should retain his virginity?

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

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