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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 much work does Rousseau recommend for Emile?
(a) Not too much to tire him.
(b) Enough to tire him.
(c) So much that he has no free time.
(d) Enough to prevent him thinking about sin.

2. What did the priest feel after he left the church?
(a) Fear and nostalgia.
(b) Desire and self-loathing.
(c) Liberation and happiness.
(d) Speculation and doubt.

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

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

5. What does Sophy's name mean?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Love.
(c) Experience.
(d) Power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of religion does Rousseau urge upon Emile?

2. What task does Emile's tutor assign, which he must complete before Emile can marry?

3. What kind of value should Sophy's skills have, in Rousseau's opinion?

4. How does the priest describe the period after he left the church?

5. What does the priest say will happen to the errors that sowed a person's alienation from religion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Emile's mentor informs Emile that he needs to go apart from Sophy and make himself worthy of her as a husband?

5. How does Rousseau describe Sophy's talents?

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

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

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

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

10. What does the priest describe of his background as he gives the discourse?

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